Francis Peyton Rous (October 5, 1879, Baltimore - February 16, 1970, New York City) was an American pathologist whose discovery of cancer-inducing viruses earned him a share of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966. October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the city in the US state of Maryland. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...

Rous was educated at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Michigan. He joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) in New York City in 1909 and remained there throughout his career. In 1910 Rous found that sarcomas in hens could be transmitted to fowl of the same inbred stock not only by grafting tumour cells but also by injecting a submicroscopic agent extractable from them; this discovery gave rise to the virus theory of cancer causation. Although his research was derided at the time, subsequent experiments vindicated his thesis, and he received belated recognition in 1966 when he was awarded (with Charles B. Huggins) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The Johns Hopkins University is an internationally prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... Rockefeller University is a small private university focusing primarily on graduate education and research in the biomedical fields, located in the southeasternmost corner of the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A sarcoma is a cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. ... A hen is a female chicken or turkey. ... In horticulture, a graft is where the tissues of one plant are affixed to the tissues of another; the process is called grafting. ... Tumor (American English) or tumour (British English) originally means swelling, and is sometimes still used with that meaning. ... Three types of viruses: a bacterial virus, otherwise called a bacteriophage (left center); an animal virus (top right); and a retrovirus (bottom right). ... When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...

Aside from cancer research, Rous did investigations of liver and gallbladder physiology, and he worked on the development of blood-preserving techniques that made the first blood banks possible. The liver is an organ in vertebrates including humans. ... The gallbladder (or cholecyst) is a pear-shaped organ that stores bile (or gall) until the body needs it for digestion. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ... A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusions. ...