Paul Adin Lewis (April 14, 1879 – June 30, 1929) was an American pathologist and associate member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
[2] Following stints at Boston City Hospital, the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Lewis became laboratory director at the Henry Phipps Institute and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Pennsylvania (1910–1923).
[3] Lewis rejoined the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1923 and worked in the department of animal pathology until his death six years later.
[4] In 1929, Lewis died of yellow fever in Bahia, Brazil, while investigating the disease under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Board.
[2] A telegram reporting his death to the Foundation noted that Lewis probably contracted yellow fever through a laboratory infection.