Terry Yates

Terry Lamon Yates (March 17, 1950 – December 11, 2007) was an American biologist and academic who is credited with discovering the source of the hantavirus in the American Southwest in 1993. Yates' specialty as a biologist was the study of rodents and other small mammals.

In 2014, a new species of subterranean rodent from South America was named after Dr. Yates which is called Yates's tuco-tuco, Ctenomys yatesi Gardner et al., 2014