Thomas Huckle Weller (1915-2008) was an American virologist. Weller studied medical zoology and received a B.S. and an M.S., with his masters thesis on fish parasites. In 1936, Weller entered Harvard Medical School where he received his MD in 1940, and went to work at Children's Hospital in Boston. In 1942, during World War II, he entered the Army Medical Corps. In 1947, that he rejoined John Franklin Enders in the newly-created Research Division of Infectious Diseases. In 1954 Weller and Enders won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using tissue from a monkey. Weller also contributed to treating schistosomiasis and Coxsackie viruses. He was also the first to isolate the virus responsible for varicella. He died in 2008 at the age of 93.