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DR. WILSON SMITH, who has just been appointed to the chair of bacteriology in the University of Sheffield, graduated in medicine at the University of Manchester in 1923, after War service in France and Belgium with a field ambulance during 1916–19. He obtained the diploma in bacteriology at Manchester in 1927 and was granted the M.D. degree in 1929. For the last ten years he has been a member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council and during this period he has made many valuable contributions to knowledge on bacteriological problems—such as the standardization and assay of pneumococcus antisera—and also on various virus diseases. Perhaps the most important of these latter contributions are the facts regarding the virus of epidemic influenza. As a member of a team, he was one of the discoverers of this virus and he helped to lay down criteria for its recognition; he did much of the pioneer work which has led to a renewed and intensive investigation of influenza throughout the world. Since 1934 he has been one of the editors of the British Journal of Experimental Pathology.
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Dr. Wilson Smith. Nature 144, 185 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144185b0
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