College of Physicians and Surgeons called Ginsberg "a giant in this field" whose "discoveries involving the genetics of adenoviruses paved the way for the development of gene therapy". Dr. Robert M. Chanock, who headed the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the NIAID, noted that "he had accomplished all he could with adenoviruses" before moving on to study HIV. A resident of both Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., Ginsberg died at age 85 on February 2, 2003 in Woods Hole due to pneumonia. He was survived by his wife, the former Marion Reibstein Ginsberg, as well as by two daughters, two sons and eight grandchildren. References External links Arnold J. Levine, "Harold S. Ginsberg", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) 1917 births 2003 deaths American microbiologists United States Army personnel of World War II American virologists Case Western Reserve University faculty Columbia University faculty Deaths from pneumonia in Massachusetts Duke University alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences People from Falmouth, Massachusetts People from Daytona Beach, Florida Recipients of the Legion of Merit Rockefeller University faculty Tulane University alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty People from Washington, D.C. United States Army officers Members of the National Academy of Medicine