Ernest William Goodpasture

Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest Goodpasture (in 1955)
BornOctober 17, 1886
DiedSeptember 20, 1960(1960-09-20) (aged 73)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materVanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Known forGoodpasture syndrome
Scientific career
FieldsPathology and infectious diseases
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School, Vanderbilt University, & Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Doctoral advisorGeorge H. Whipple

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.[1] He also described Goodpasture syndrome.[2]

  1. ^ "Obituary (AP): Dr. Ernest Goodpasture Dead; Developed Vaccine for Mumps: Pathologist's Chicken Embryo Virus Led to Immunization Against Many Diseases". New York Times. Sep 22, 1960. p. 27 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ Valentini, Rudolph P. Pediatric Anti-GBM Disease (Goodpasture Syndrome). Accessed 8-28-2009.