Ellis Achong 1932. Achong is better known for playing cricket. He was mainly a bowler. His stock ball was left-arm orthodox spin (left-arm finger spin), but one of his variations was unorthodox left-arm spin. After bowling this variation to have Walter Robins stumped at Old Trafford in 1933, it is reputed that Robins said to the umpire, Joe Hardstaff Sr., "fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman". Learie Constantine is said to have replied: "Do you mean the bowler or the ball?" An unorthodox left-arm spin delivery (spinning from the off side to the leg side for a right-handed batsman) is known
Bert Achong Hospital. He moved with Epstein to the Department of Pathology at University of Bristol in 1968, where he was a popular lecturer on cellular pathology until his retirement in 1985. He died of a brain tumour in 1996. Achong, Michael Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr discovered the first example of a human cancer-causing virus. They published the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in The Lancet on 28 March 1984. Achong's role in the discovery of EBV was to prepare and examine cultured cells prepared from Burkitt's lymphoma samples by electron microscopy. In 1971 Achong made another major discovery, the