Albert Balows

Albert Balows (January 3, 1921, Denver, Colorado – September 23, 2006, Fulton County, Georgia) was an American clinical microbiologist. He was the president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1981.

Biography He had a brother and two sisters and his parents were Jewish immigrants to the United States from Russia. Albert Balows grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado and graduated from Palmer High School. He graduated in 1942 with a B.A. in biology from Colorado College. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the United States Army Medical Corps and participated in the 1944–1945 military campaign of Patton's 3rd Army. Balows graduated in 1948 with an M.S. in microbiology from Syracuse University and in 1952 with a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Kentucky. At the University of Kentucky, his mentor was Ralph Holder Weaver (1903–1973). He worked with the World Health Organization He did research on AIDS, toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaires' disease, Ebola virus, group B streptococci, Histoplasma capsulatum, and other problems in public health. He received in 1981 the Becton Dickinson award in clinical microbiology, in 1983 the Silver Medallion for outstanding contributions to clinical microbiology from the Italian Society of Microbiology (Società Italiana di Microbiologia),

Selected publications Articles

Books (pbk reprint of 1981 edition)