Definition von ernest william goodpasture im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
born Oct. 17, 1886, Montgomery county, Tenn., U.S. died Sept. 20, 1960, Nashville, Tenn. U.S. pathologist. He spent most of his career (1924-55) at Vanderbilt University. His method for cultivating viruses and rickettsias in fertile chicken eggs, developed in 1931, made possible the production of vaccines for such diseases as smallpox, influenza, yellow fever, typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and other illnesses caused by agents that propagate in living tissue