Milton Thiago de Mello
Milton Thiago de Mello (born February 5, 1916 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian veterinarian and primatologist .
Life
Milton T. de Mello graduated from the Escola de Veterinária do Exército (Veterinary School of the Army) in 1937 and received his doctorate in microbiology from the Escola Nacional de Veterinária in 1946 . He first worked as a veterinarian for the Brazilian Armed Forces , then at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz .
He was a lecturer at the Colégio Militar do Rio de Janeiro , then as a professor of zoology at the Universidade de Brasília , where he founded a center for primatology. Zoonoses were one of his other main areas of research . He was also an advisor to the World Health Organization .
Honors etc.
In 1988 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London .
After Milton Thiago de Mello, the fire- tailed jumper monkey first described in 2014 received the scientific name Plecturocebus miltoni .
Publications (selection)
- (with Genesio Pacheco): Brucelose , 1956
- Primatologia. Uma fronteira em expansão da veterinária mundial , 1995
- Animais ameaçados de extinção , 1996
Web links
- Ex-consultor da ONU, Milton Thiago de Mello comemora 100 anos com conferência internacional , nacoesunidas.org (Portuguese)
- biographical information on the website of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Portuguese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mello, Milton Thiago de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian veterinarian and primatologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |