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Yvonne M. Barr

Born  1932
Died  

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British virologist, born 1932, London.

Biography of Yvonne M. Barr

Yvonne M. Barr obtained her Ph.D. from the University of London in 1966. She was Epstein's assistant at London‘s Middlesex hospital when they discovered the Epstein-Barr virus in 1964. She married an Australian and settled in Australia.

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