Anthony Epstein, a British pathologist whose chance attendance at a lecture on childhood tumors in Africa began years of scientific sleuthing that led to the discovery of the ultra-common Epstein-Barr virus and opened expansive research into its viral links to cancers and other chronic ailments, died Feb. 6 at his home in London. He was 102.
Anthony Epstein, pathologist behind Epstein-Barr virus find, dies at 102
The breakthrough in the 1960s opened the way for studies into viral links to human cancers
By Brian Murphy
February 14, 2024 at 10:25 p.m. EST