Harry Rubin (born June 23, 1926, in New York City)[1] – February 2, 2020)[2] was an American cell biologist and virologist.
[4][5] From 1948 to 1952 he was stationed in Montgomery, Alabama as a commissioned officer of the United States Public Health Service.
In January 1952 he married Dorothy Margaret Shuster, who was being trained as a flight evacuation nurse in the U.S. Air Force when he met her.
[4] In 1952 he was briefly enrolled as a graduate student at New York University, but Wendell Stanley recruited him to work at UC Berkeley's Virus Laboratory.
In 1958 Temin and Rubin published an important paper Characteristics of an assay for Rous sarcoma virus and Rous sarcoma cells in tissue culture on their breakthrough in developing a tissue culture assay for RSV.