Awards & Winners

Richard Shope

Date of Birth 25-December-1901
Place of Birth Des Moines
(Polk County, United States of America, Iowa, Warren County, Area code 515)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Richard Schope
Richard Shope was an American virologist who at Rockefeller Institute identified influenzavirus A in pigs in 1931. Using Shope's technique, Smith, Andrewes, and Laidlaw of England's Medical Research Council cultured it from a human in 1933. They and Shope in 1935 and 1936, respectively, identified it as the virus circulating in the 1918 pandemic. In 1933, Shope identified the Shope papillomavirus, which infects rabbits. He received the 1957 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award.

Awards by Richard Shope

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Shope.

1957


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For outstanding contributions to the better understanding of infectious diseases in animals and man and his discovery of new microbiological principles of far-reaching importance.)