René Jules Dubos was a Pulitzer Prize winner who excelled in adapting microorganisms to specific purposes, including fighting tuberculosis, which killed his wife.
René Jules Dubot (February 20, 1901 - February 20, 1982) was born in Saint-Brice-sous-Fôret, France. After moving to Paris in his teens, he attended the Institut National Agronomique, and in 1922 obtained a job at the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases in Rome, where his interest in microbiology was sparked. Two years later he moved to America to learn bacteriology at Rutgers University, and after graduation he worked at the Rockefeller Institute in New York for fifty years. Dubos was particularly interested in the relationship among bacteria, environment, and immunity. His book So Human An Animal won a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.
René J. Dubos appears in the following:
Biological and Social Aspects of Tuberculosis (26th Hermann M. Biggs Memorial Lecture)
Thursday, April 05, 1951
