Lawrence Kilham Explained

Lawrence Kilham (10 August 1910, in Brookline, Massachusetts – 21 September 2000, in Lyme, New Hampshire), was a physician, virologist, amateur ornithologist, and nature writer.[1] He is credited as the discoverer of K virus (1952)[2] and, with L. J. Olivier, Kilham rat virus (1959), the first protoparvovirus identified.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Kilham received his bachelor's degree in 1932 and his M.S. in biology in 1935 from Harvard University and then his M.D. in 1940 from Harvard Medical School. As an intern in Cleveland, Ohio, he married an intern, Jane K. Kilham (1912–1992). Early in WW II, husband and wife went to England, and after D-Day Lawrence Kilham served in field hospitals as a doctor in the Third Army under Patton. In 1945, Lawrence Kilham returned to graduate school to do research on virology and to teach epidemiology. He was a virology researcher from 1949 to 1960 and in 1961 he became a professor at Dartmouth Medical School (Geisel School of Medicine), retiring there as professor emeritus in 1978.[1]

He was elected a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1974. He was awarded the John Burroughs Medal in 1989 for his 1979 book On Watching Birds.[1]

Lawrence Kilham died at his home in Lyme, New Hampshire on 21 Sep 2000.[7] He was predeceased by his wife[1] and a son, Peter.[8] He was survived by three sons, Benjamin, Michael, and Joshua, and a daughter, Phoebe.[1]

Books

reissued as Book: A Naturalist's Field Guide. 1981. Stackpole Books. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Notes and References

  1. The Auk. 118. 4. 1031–1033. October 2001. 10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118[1031:IMLK]2.0.CO;2. IN MEMORIAM: LAWRENCE KILHAM, 1910–2000. Jackson, Jerome A.. free.
  2. Kilham, L.. Isolation in suckling mice of a virus from C3H mice harboring Bittner milk agent. Science. 116. 3015. 1952. 391–392. 10.1126/science.116.3015.391. 12984129. 1952Sci...116..391K . (See John Joseph Bittner#Cancer research.)
  3. Kilham, L.. Olivier, L. J.. April 1959. A latent virus of rats isolated in tissue culture. Virology. 7. 4. 429–437. 10.1016/0042-6822(59)90071-6. 13669314.
  4. Book: Infectious diseases of mice and rats. National Research Council. National Academies Press. 1991. 9780309063326.
  5. 20. 3. July 1963. 391–398. Virology. A comparison of polyoma, "K", and Kilham rat viruses with the electron microscope. Dalton, A.J.. Kilham, L.. Zeigel, R.F.. 10.1016/0042-6822(63)90087-4. 14043403.
  6. The Journal of Immunology. TLR9-Signaling Pathways Are Involved in Kilham Rat Virus-Induced Autoimmune Diabetes in the Biobreeding Diabetes-Resistant Rat. Zipris, Danny. Lien, Egil. Nair, Anjali. Kie, Jenny X.. Greiner, Dale L.. Mordes, John P.. Rossini, Aldo A.. 15 January 2007. 17. 2. 693–701. 10.4049/jimmunol.178.2.693. 17202329. free.
  7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4089853?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents In Memoriam: Lawrence Kilham, 1910-2000 on JSTOR
  8. Peter Kilham 1943–1989. Diatom Research. 5. 1990. 1. Hecky, Robert E.. 209–212. 10.1080/0269249X.1990.9705109. 1990DiaRe...5..209H .
  9. Power, Harry W.. Review of The American Crow and the Common Raven by Lawrence Kilham. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 66. 1. March 1991. 91. 10.1086/417092.

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