5 Most Famous Harvard Students of All Time

2. J. Michael Bishop (1936)

The next Harvard fellow on our list is John Michael Bishop, the famous American virologist, and immunologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his co-worker Harold E. Varmus in 1989. Bishop earned his MD from Harvard in the 1960s.

Bishop is famous for his award-winning services on retroviral oncogenes. With Varmus, he introduced c-Src (the first human oncogene). This discovery made the world understand how and where malignant tumors come from. Bishop and his co-worker uncovered that the tumor formation is a result of virus attacks, radiation, or chemical exposure. In 2003, the Harvard alumnus also won the National Medal of Science award.

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