Now much updated, streamlined, added to and otherwise tarted up! This is the Web version of an eBook, which you can now get here:
A Short History of the Discovery of Viruses – Edward Rybicki
See also here for a “pocket reference version” of the discovery of viruses
Part 1: Filters and Discovery
Part 2: The Ultracentrifuge, Eggs and Flu
Part 3: Phages, Cell Culture and Polio
Part 4: RNA Genomes and Modern Virology
Sidebar 1: The Discovery of Filoviruses
Sidebar 2: Papillomaviruses and Human Cancer
Sidebar 3: Epstein-Barr Virus and Hepatitis B Virus
Sidebar 4: Human Retroviruses and Cancer
Sidebar 5: Maize Streak Virus: The Early History
Sidebar 6: Rinderpest and Its Eradication
Sidebar 7: Viruses and human cancer: the molecular age
Copyright Edward P Rybicki and Russell Kightley, February and March 2015, except where otherwise noted.
ViroBlogy 
6 March, 2015 at 14:38 |
This is excellent stuff, many thanks.
I would strongly urge you to make this content available via FigShare, which will give added advantages in terms of a doi number, increased visibility, etc.
8 March, 2015 at 13:15 |
You like?? Ta! And I was wanting to see if I could sell it…but I could also make it available free via the iBook store (iBook version). But you are probably right: no problem with more than one version and a doi would be useful in claiming it as a publication (although, like everything I do, it ain’t quite finished…!).
3 April, 2015 at 13:00 |
OK: now done via Figshare – you want to see if you can find it? Ta!
6 March, 2015 at 14:44 |
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I love to have the ibook version, how do I ask for it?
8 March, 2015 at 13:13 |
You email me direct – ed.rybicki@uct.ac.za – and I send you a link!
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