Richard Henry Austin Swain (6 February 1910 – 11 May 1981) was a British virologist, bacteriologist and pathologist.
He was born in Wimbledon on 6 February 1910, the son of master builder, Charles Henry Swain.
In 1942 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served as a military pathologist with the Central Mediterranean Forces.
His proposers were Thomas J. Mackie, James Pickering Kendall, Alexander Murray Drennan and John Gaddum.
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