Background
Rous, Francis Peyton was born on October 5, 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Charles and Frances Anderson (Wood) Rous.
Rous, Francis Peyton was born on October 5, 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Charles and Frances Anderson (Wood) Rous.
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins, 1900, Doctor of Medicine 1905. (honorary) Doctor of Science, Cambridge University, University of Michigan, 1938. Yale, University of Birmingham, McGill University, 1949, University of Chicago, 1954, Rockefeller Institute, 1959, Jefferson University, 1966, University of Hartford, 1967.
M.D. (honorary), University Zurich, 1946, Jefferson Medical College, 1966. Doctor of Laws, St. Lawrence University, 1963.
Resident house officer, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1904-1906. Instructor in pathology, University of Michigan, 1906-1908. Assistant, associate, associate member, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1909-1920, member in pathology and bacteriology, 1920-1945, member emeritus 1945.
Member board scientific consultants Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, New York City, 1957-1970. Linacre Lecturer Cambridge U., 1929, honorary fellow Trinity Hall, same.
Member, Rockefeller Institute for Medical. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National Academy Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Association American Physicians, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Society for Experimental Pathology, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Harvey Society, New York Pathological Society, New York Academy of Medicine, American Association for Cancer Research, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi.
Foreign; member British Physiological Society, Pathol. Society of Great Britain and Ireland, American Society for Microbiology, New York Pathological Society, Connecticut Medical Society. Member British Medical Association, Academie de Medecine, Paris.
Member Royal Academy Sciences of Denmark, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Club: Century.
Married Marion Eckford de Kay, June 15, 1915. Children: Marion (Mistress Alan Hodgkin), Ellen deKay, Phoebe (Mistress Thomas J. Wilson).