Ernest William Goodpasture, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest William Goodpasture

American pathologist and physician

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1886

Place of Birth: Clarksville, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1960

Profession: military officer, university teacher, pathologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ernest William Goodpasture (October 17, 1886 – September 20, 1960) was an American pathologist and physician.
Goodpasture advanced the scientific understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, parasitism, and a variety of rickettsial and viral infections.
Together with colleagues at Vanderbilt University, he invented methods for growing viruses and rickettsiae in chicken embryos and fertilized chicken eggs.
This enabled the development of vaccines against influenza, chicken pox, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, Rocky mountain spotted fever, and other diseases.
He also described Goodpasture syndrome.