Edwin Herman Lennette (September 11, 1908, Pittsburgh – October 1, 2000) was an American physician, virologist, and pioneer of diagnostic virology.
There he did research on hepatitis and encephalitis and was one of the founding members of the USA's first civilian laboratory dedicated to diagnostic virology.
For 18 months from 1946 to 1947, he was the chief of the U.S. Army's Medical-Veterniary Division in the Chemical Corps at Camp Detrick.
In Berkeley, he was the director of the Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory (VRDL) of the California Department of Public Health from 1947 to 1978, when he retired.
[6] Lennette's research on Q fever in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s gained him an international reputation as a scientist and physician.