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Volume 351:1483-1485 October 7, 2004 Number 15
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Advances in Virology — Weller and Robbins
Martha L. Lepow, M.D.

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Book Review: This article reviews the book Growing Pathogens in Tissue Culture: Fifty Years in Academic Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics, and Virology, by Thomas H. Weller, published by Science History Publishers, Canton, Mass., 2004.

"Birds, fishes, worms, and viruses" — so runs the taxonomic summary of a life's work that opens the autobiography of Thomas H. Weller, Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures.1 Weller, a driven, curious, committed research physician, combined his interests and talent with a profound desire to improve the human condition through the prevention of diseases caused by viruses and parasites. He descended from several generations of physicians, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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From the Department of Pediatrics, Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y.



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