Nationality British Fields Zoology / Medicine | Name John Scott | |
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Institutions Edinburgh University
Radcliffe Infirmary and County Hospital, Oxford Alma mater Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Known for Researches on tropical diseases, especially on Malaria and Trypanosomiasis
Contributions to entomology, particularly descriptive reports of new species, on Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), mosquitoes and tse-tse fly Died October 11, 1948, St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom Education Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | ||
Notable awards Mary Kingsley Medal | ||
John William Scott Macfie M.A. (Cantab.), M.B.,Ch.B.(Edin.), D.T.M., D.Sc. (Edin.) (16 September 1879 – 11 October 1948) was a British entomologist, parasitologist and protozoologist, born in Eastham, Cheshire, England. He died in Hastings, Sussex, England.
Macfie was educated at Oundle School and Caius College, Cambridge. He was director of the Medical Research Institute in Accra between 1914 and 1923, having undertaken the same responsibilities in an acting capacity at Lagos in 1913.
He was awarded the Mary Kingsley medal by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1919 and lectured at that institution on protozoology between 1923 and 1925.
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