Lionel Vivian Crawford FRS, FRSE (30 April 1932 – 3 August 2024) was a British cancer expert and virologist.
After demobilization in 1952 he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge with a State Scholarship, graduating with a first class degree in Botany, Zoology, Organic Chemistry and Biology in 1955.
[3] After graduate work at the Cambridge Department of Chemical Microbiology he completed his PhD in 1958 in biochemistry.
[3] In 1968 he became head of the Department of Virology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, a position he held until 1988 when he returned to the University of Cambridge to join the Pathology Department as a researcher.
He was awarded the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society in 2005 "in recognition for his work on the small DNA tumour viruses, specifically the papova virus group, papilloma, polyoma and SV40".