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Yvonne M. Barr
British virologist, born 1932, London.
Associated eponyms:
Epstein-Barr virus (Michael Anthony Epstein)
Human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis.
Biography:
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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