William G. Banfield II, 91, a physician and research scientist at the National Institutes of Health who specialized in research on viruses, died Jan. 13 at his home in Rockville.
He died of leukemia, said his daughter, Sarah Banfield.
William Gethin Banfield II was a native of Charlotte and a 1941 graduate of the University of Rhode Island. He attended Yale University medical school until 1943, when he joined the Army Medical Corps in World War II.
After the war, he finished his medical training at Yale and did a medical residency in pathology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He remained on the staff of the hospital until joining NIH in 1955. He retired in 1980.
Survivors include his wife of 68 years, Joan Sanders Banfield of Rockville; three children, William “Sandy” Banfield III of Rockville and Peter Banfield and Sarah Banfield, both of Colorado Springs; four grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
— Adam Bernstein
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