Sarah Elizabeth Stewart

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Fulghieri, Carl ; Bloom, Sharon
• Description:
  This is a photograph of Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, PhD, MD (1905–1976), whose discoveries involving the murine polyomavirus with Bernice Eddy, PhD, propelled the then-reluctant field of oncology to pursue viral etiolo- gies of cancer. Sarah Stewart was born on August 16, 1905, in Jalisco, Mexico, to an American engineer and Mexican mother. After moving with her family back to the United States at age 5, Stewart remained fluent in Spanish. In 1927, she graduated from New Mexico State University and in 1930, she earned an MS in Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She worked at the National In- stitutes of Health (NIH) during 1935–1944, publishing 7 papers on anaerobic bacteria and completing a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1939.
• Subjects:
  Cell Transformation, Viral History, 20Th Century Humans Oncogenic Viruses/Physiology Research/History
• Keywords:
  EID photo quiz
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 20(5):893-895.
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2005.131876
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Stewart, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1906-1977
• Genre:
  Biography ; Photo Quiz
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:43f18b711c7a9db43530ade242f403d5f5d7314e7a0cb9f58dc8848577951c58fe621b00b4008084d9fb6a04da485a2a147afa1ce40f875a9810dc3345f75372
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23081/cdc_23081_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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