Notable awards Royal Society | Name Arthur Felix | |
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Born 3 April 1887Andrychow ( 1887-04-03 ) Institution Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine | ||
Arthur Felix, FRS (3 April 1887 in Andrychów – 17 January 1956 in England) was a Polish microbiologist and serologist.
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Education and early life
Arthur Felix was the son of Theodor Felix, who had an interest in printed textiles and who encouraged his son to study textile dye chemistry. Felix studied chemistry in Vienna and was awarded a Doctor of Science degree. After working in his father's textile printing factory, he returned to Vienna to study microbiology. Arthur Felix became interested in Zionism during his student days in Vienna and later developed into an authority on Palestine.
Career
In 1915, Arthur Felix and Edmund Weil developed the Weil–Felix test for diagnosis of typhus and other rickettsial diseases. After World War I, Felix emigrated to Britain and worked at the Lister Institute.
Felix researched in Bielsko, Vienna, Prague, and London. Between 1927 and 1945, he worked in Jerusalem for the Hadassah Medical Organization.
Awards and honours
In 1943 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.