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How the American Society for Virology was founded.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  16364755     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The American Society for Virology, the very first such Society to be formed anywhere, was founded at a meeting of some 40 virologists at Chicago O'Hare International airport on June 9, 1981. They met after a decade and a half of intense discussion that originated at the 9th International Congress of Microbiology in Moscow in 1966 when a small group of virologists requested the International Association of Microbiological Societies to form a Virology Section within IAMS, and this request was rejected. Virologists therefore held their own First International Congress of Virology in Helsinki in 1968 which was very successful and generated intense informal discussion among leading virologists in this country as to the desirability of founding an American society for virologists. Proposals were circulated and discussed which resulted in the informal Chicago meeting that created the mechanism for founding the ASV and organizing its 1st Annual Meeting at Cornell in Ithaca in August 1982.
Authors:
Wolfang K Joklik; Sidney E Grossberg
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Historical Article; Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Virology     Volume:  344     ISSN:  0042-6822     ISO Abbreviation:  Virology     Publication Date:  2006 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2005-12-20     Completed Date:  2006-03-09     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0110674     Medline TA:  Virology     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  250-7     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
History, 20th Century
Societies, Scientific / history*
United States
Virology / history*

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