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Roderick Murray was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and reared in Scotland and South Africa. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He earned a master's degree in organic chemistry from the University of South Africa and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, having come to the United States in 1937. During World War II, he served for five years in the South Pacific as an infectious disease control specialist in an Army medical laboratory.

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Dr. Roderick Murray Portrait in Building 29

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He was the author or coauthor of more than 50 scientific papers, and he received the U.S. Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal in 1965. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Public Health Association and a member of the American Association of Immunologists and the American Medical Association. Dr. Murray retired in 1973 as an assistant surgeon general. He died in 1980.

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In February 1961, Dr. Murray informed Dr. Bernice Eddy that her research interests conflicted with her control work on respiratory viruses and that going forward she would be asked to spend time solely on research, and that her staff would be reduced. She refuted this claim and wrote back to the Chief of the Control Activities, Dr. William Workman. She then received a memo in reply from Dr. Joseph Smadel, the Chief of the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology, who told her she was being forced to vacate her current position. It seemed that as long as Dr. Eddy was engaged in basic research with only minor relevance to her control activities, she was allowed to continue her work. But if her research began to identify factors which might require changes in regulatory control of vaccines, her work was to stop. In July 1961, Dr. Eddy began her new role in research only. Much of the treatment of Dr. Eddy was revealed in the hearings in Congress as part of the Consumer Safety Act of 1972.

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Dr. Roderick Murray at left, with Dr. Joseph Smadel, at right, the 1962 Lasker Award winner.

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