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Dr. Paul D. Parkman, who helped identify the rubella virus, dies

Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research helped identify the virus that causes rubella, died May 7 in Auburn, New York. He was 91.

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Dr. Paul Parkman, who helped to eliminate rubella, dies at 91

Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research was instrumental in identifying the virus that causes rubella and developing a vaccine that has prevented an epidemic of the disease in the United States for more than 50 years, died on May 7 at his home in Auburn, New York, about 60 miles east of Rochester in the Finger Lakes region. He was 91.

Paul Parkman, an inventor of the rubella vaccine, dies at 91

He trained as a pediatrician but was drawn into virology while serving in the Army Medical Corps in the early 1960s.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 was divided, one half awarded to Harald zur Hausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer", the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"