Norman P. Salzman

Norman Post Salzman (August 14, 1926 – December 11, 1997) was an American virologist. He spent much of his career as a scientist at the United States National Institutes of Health, where he rose to become the chief of the Laboratory on the Biology of Viruses; after retiring from the NIH in 1986, he worked at Georgetown University and later at the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center. Salzman died of pancreatic cancer in 1997 at age 71.

Education Salzman was born in Manhattan and was an undergraduate at the City College of New York, from which he graduated in 1948. He received a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1949 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1953. Salzman's research interests included the polio virus, oncoviruses and the molecular mechanisms by which they cause cancer, and later retroviruses such as the human immunodeficiency virus.