a novel by Grace Metalious that was made into a very popular television soap opera (1964-68), about the lives of a group of people in a small town in New England. People sometimes say that a situation is like Peyton Place when they mean that a group of people have many secrets and complicated emotional relationships
{i} Francis Peyton Rous (1879-1970), United States pathologist who won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1966 for discovering viruses that cause tumors
{i} Peyton Rous (1879-1970), United States pathologist who won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1966 for discovering viruses that cause tumors