1936 Press Photo Virus Authority Dr. Wendell Stanley in New Orleans - nox40535

Dr. Wendell M. Stanley Man who lifted curtain on disease secrets tells of work Finds "new world" Virus authority Dr. Wendell Stanley is visiting city A baldish, blondish young man was in New Orleans today to tell scientists of the city how one depression-day graduate, turned out as the economic crash was starting, turned his work since then into one of the amazing discoveries of science. The world of medicine was excited as it is at rare intervals, when Dr. Wendell M. Stanley succeeded in lifting the first corner of a heavy curtain that screens the causes and natures of many of world's major diseases. For chemist Stanley, at 32, discovered for the first time in history the nature of certain viruses - hitherto unreachable substances - that bring death and desolation to human, plant and animal life.

Photo is dated 1936.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.