George Dick was an American bacteriologist and pathologist who, along with his wife, Dr. Gladys Rowena Henry Dick, isolated and identified the causative bacterium for scarlet fever and developed the toxin used for immunization. In addition, they devised theDick method for preventing scarlet fever by toxin-nontoxin injection and developed theDick skin test to determine the susceptibility to scarlet fever. The Dicks were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine 1925 for their contributions and discoveries regarding scarlet fever, but no prize was awarded that year.

Dick was born on October 14, 1881 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in 1905. In 1910, he became pathology instructor at the University of Chicago were he met his future wife, Gladys. The Dicks married in 1914, and during the same year, George worked at the John R. McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases. Dick studied scarlet fever among enlisted...