Milton Zaitlin (April 2, 1927 – October 11, 2016) was an American virologist who spent most of his academic career as a professor of plant pathology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received his bachelor's degree in plant pathology in 1949.
During this period he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[3] and Fulbright scholarship, which supported a return to CSIRO in Australia.
He moved to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1973 and remained there until his retirement, assuming professor emeritus status, in 1997.
[1][2] Zaitlin was one of the founding members of the American Society for Virology and was the organizer of its inaugural annual meeting at Cornell in August 1982.