Korean name | |
Hangul | 이호왕 |
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Hanja | 李鎬汪 |
Revised Romanization | I Howang |
McCune–Reischauer | I Howang |
Ho Wang Lee (26 October 1928 – 5 July 2022)[1] was a South Korean physician, epidemiologist, and virologist. He was the first person in the history of medicine to be the one chiefly responsible for all 3 of the following steps: (1) discovery of the virus causing a human disease, (2) development of a method of diagnosis for the disease, and (3) development of a vaccine against the disease.[2]