19175 Peterpiot | Discovered 1991 Aug. 2 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. |
Peter Piot (b. 1949), a Belgian physician, co-discovered the ebola virus in Zaire in 1976. In addition to providing the foundations of our understanding of HIV infection, he is the author of 16 books and 500 scientific articles. He has been the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 2010. |
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Reference: MPC batch dated 2014-10-08 | Last Updated: 2015-01-12 |