Ludwik Gross
Ludwik Gross · Science & Medicine
Pioneer of viral oncology who showed that viruses can transmit cancer in mammals.
1904, Kraków, Poland — 1999, New York City, United States
Poland · France · United States
Ludwik Gross is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Pioneer of viral oncology who showed that viruses can transmit cancer in mammals.
A Polish Jew from Kraków, Gross fled Europe and continued his research in the United States, largely at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx. He demonstrated that viruses can transmit cancer (leukemia) in mammals — isolating the murine leukemia virus and later the polyoma virus — establishing viral oncology at a time when the idea met deep skepticism. He was Jewish.
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Pioneer of viral oncology who showed that viruses can transmit cancer in mammals.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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