Michael A. Epstein

Sir Michael Anthony Epstein CBE, FRS FMedSci (18 May 1921 – 6 February 2024) was a British virologist of Jewish descent.The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. W. Rubinstein, Michael A. Jolles.  2001. page 258. He was one of the discoverers of the Epstein-Barr virus. 

Epstein was Professor of Pathology, 1968-85, and Head of Department, 1968-82 at the University of Bristol.  In 1979 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and was its Vice-President from 1986 to 1991. In 1989 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

He died on 6 February 2024, at the age of 102.

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