Bert Geoffrey Achong (6 December 1928 – 20 November 1996) was a Trinidadian-born pathologist known for co-discovering the Epstein–Barr virus through use of electron microscopy.
[1] After excelling in school in Trinidad and Tobago, he was awarded the Jerningham Gold Medal and the Colonial Scholarship to study in Europe.
[2] He moved to Europe at 18[2] and enrolled at University College Dublin, where he received his medical degree in 1953.
In 1963, he joined Michael Anthony Epstein's research group at Middlesex Hospital.
[1] Achong, Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr discovered the first example of a human cancer-causing virus.