Wallace Peters

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Wallace Peters (born April 1, 1924 in London ; † December 2018 ) was a British doctor ( parasitology , tropical medicine), who is known for his research on malaria . He also emerged as a butterfly researcher.

Life

Peters attended the Medical School at Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London. He then worked as a doctor in West and East Africa, including 1947 to 1953 for the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). From 1953 to 1955 he worked for the WHO as an entomologist and malaria specialist in Liberia and Nepal and then from 1956 to 1961 in Papua New Guinea . From 1961 to 1966 he did research at CIBA in Basel. From 1966 to 1979 he was Professor of Parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), where he was Dean from 1975 to 1978 (followed by HM Gilles). From 1979 until his retirement in 1989 he was Professor (Medical Protozoology) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

From 1978 to 1989 he was consultant for parasitology at the Camden Area Health Authority, consultant to the British army on malaria issues and from 1967 on the WHO expert commission on malaria. From 1999, Peters was director of the Center for Tropical Antiprotozoal Chemotherapy at the Northwick Park Institute of Medical Research. He died in late December 2018.

Honors

In 1983 Peters received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine. 1987/88 he was president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, of which he was an honorary member. In 1980 he was awarded the Rudolf Leuckart Medal of the German Society for Parasitology for his services to malaria research . He was awarded the Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), of which he was an honorary member, in 1994. Peters was an honorary doctorate from Descartes University in Paris.

Fonts

  • Checklist of Ethiopian Butterflies , 1952.
  • Chemotherapy and Drug Resistance in Malaria , Academic Press 1970, 2 volumes, 1987.
  • with Geoffrey Pasvol: Tropical medicine and parasitology , Mosby, 2001, 6th edition 2007.
  • with HM Gilles Atlas of tropical medicine and parasitology , 1977, 1995.
  • as co-editor: Rodent Malaria , 1978.
  • as co-editor: Pharmacology of Antimalarials , 2 volumes, 1984.
  • as co-editor Leishmaniases in biology and medicine , 1987.
  • Atlas of Arthropodes in clinical medicine , 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Memoriam: LSTM Dean Professor Wallace Peters (1924-2018). Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), January 2, 2019, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Conference of the German Veterinary Medical Society Section Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases: Brief History of Parasitology in Giessen. P. 25. ( Online ; PDF; 3.2 MB)
  3. ^ The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH): Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal. ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.astmh.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 15, 2011)

source

  • International Who's Who, 63rd Edition, Europa Publications, 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Peters, Wallace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 2018