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James R. Dawson

Born  1876
Died  1973

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American pathologist, born 1908.

Biography of James R. Dawson

Dawson was a pioneer anaesthesiologist.

Bibliography

  • J. R. Dawson:
    Infection of chicks and chick embryos with rabies.
    Science, Washington, 1939, 89: 300-301.
    Cultivation of rabies virus in the chick embryo.
    Soon aftewards I. J. Kligler and H. Bernkopf made a similar report, in Nature, 1939, 143: 899.
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