Paul Bruce Beeson

Paul Bruce Beeson
Born(1908-10-18)18 October 1908
Died14 August 2006(2006-08-14) (aged 97)
NationalityAmerican
Known fordiscovery of interleukin-1
AwardsFellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1966)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969)
Robert H. Williams Award of the Association of Professors of Medicine (1971)
Bristol Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (1972)
Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians (1973)
Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1973)
John Phillips Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians (1976)

Paul Bruce Beeson (18 October 1908 – 14 August 2006) was an American physician and professor of medicine, specializing in infectious diseases and the pathogenesis of fever.