프랜시스 페이턴 라우스

소개

프랜시스 페이턴 라우스(영어: Francis Peyton Rous, ForMemRS, 1879년 10월 5일 ~ 1970년 2월 16일)는 미국의 병리학자이다. 1966년에 종양을 일으키는 바이러스를 발견·연구한 공로로 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상했다.

Francis Peyton Rous was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller University known for his works in oncoviruses, blood transfusion and physiology of digestion. A medical graduate from the Johns Hopkins University, he was discouraged from becoming a practicing physician due to severe tuberculosis. After three years of working as an instructor of pathology at the University of Michigan, he became dedicated researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for the rest of his career.