Dr Ruth Bishop is the discoverer of rotavirus. In 1973 she
examined cells from the intestines of children with
gastroenteritis at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne,
Australia. Using an electron microscope she saw viruses which
she called duovirus because they were seen in the duodenum and
had a double capsid. The name rotavirus was later suggested by
the Irishman, Thomas Henry Flewett. Professor Geoffrey Lilley
Smith (born 1955) FRS FMedSci FIBiol is a British virologist and
medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the
family of Poxviruses. He is Head of the Department of Virology
at Imperial College London and a Principal Research Fellow of
the Wellcome Trust. Smith completed his bachelors degree at the
University of Leeds in 1977 and in 1981 gained a PhD in Virology
whilst in London. David Bodian (15 May 1910 – 18 September
1992), was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine who worked in polio research . In
the early 1940s he helped lay t