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01-06-2015 | Editorial
Margaret Gladys Smith, mother of cytomegalovirus: 60th anniversary of cytomegalovirus isolation
Published in: Medical Microbiology and Immunology | Issue 3/2015
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In the year 2014, the ‘cytomegalovirus community’ of researchers commemorated the 60th anniversary of cytomegalovirus isolation by Margaret Gladys Smith (1896–1970), former faculty member and Professor of Pathology at the Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine (Fig. 1). The year 1954 brought a number of chronicle events: the ‘birth’ of cytomegalovirus in Saint Louis/Missouri, a total solar eclipse, the ‘Niagara rock fall’, the ‘miracle of Bern,’ and, last and least, a baby boy was born in the Bavarian Alps for whom the scientific achievements by Margaret Gladys Smith should become sort of destiny.
Fig. 1
Margaret Gladys Smith in the late 1960s as ‘professor emerita active,’ lecturer in the Department of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine. It was the time when she co-authored the classic textbook Pathology of Infancy and Childhood with John M. Kissane. For more details of her biography, use the website Women in Health Sciences (http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/mowihsp/bios/smith.htm). Photograph from the Bernhard Becker Medical Library Image Gallery (identifier VC410SmithMG02)
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