| 词条 | Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner |
| 释义 | Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner British biologist born July 5, 1862, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died Dec. 16, 1937, London, Eng. American-born British biologist and physician who contributed substantially to many branches of biology and founded the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology (1921) at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, University of). Nuttall graduated from the University of California Medical School (M.D., 1884) and received his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, Germany (1890). He became a lecturer in bacteriology and preventive medicine at Cambridge, England, in 1900, when he acquired British citizenship. In 1906 he was elected the first Quick Professor of Biology at Cambridge (emeritus 1931). He made significant, innovative discoveries in immunology, about life under aseptic conditions, in blood chemistry, and about diseases transmitted by arthropods, especially ticks (tick). His publications include several books and many papers on bacteriology, serology, hygiene, tropical medicine, and parasitology. He founded the Journal of Hygiene (1901) and Journal of Parasitology (1908) and edited the former until 1937 and the latter until 1933. |
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