Nationality British Notable awards FRS CMG Name Robert Leiper | Fields helminthology Spouse Ceinwen Saron Died 1969 | |
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Born Robert Thomson Leiper
17 April 1881 ( 1881-04-17 ) Children one son and two daughters | ||
Robert Thomson Leiper (17 April 1881 – 21 May 1969) FRS CMG was a British parasitologist and helminthologist.
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Early life and education
He was born on 17 April 1881 in Witch Road, Kilmarnock, Scotland, the eldest of three children of John Leiper (d. 1895), tailor, and his wife, Jessie Aird.
After his family moved to England, he was educated at Warwick School, and he spent a year at Mason Science College, (which later became the University of Birmingham), before entering the University of Glasgow medical school, graduating in 1904.
Career
From an early age he was devoted to helminthology (the study of parasitic worms).
Selected publications
In 1923, he founded the Journal of Helminthology.
Awards and honours
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society on 3 May 1923. He was appointed FRCP in 1936, CMG in 1941, and received an LLD degree from Glasgow University in 1955.
Personal life
In 1908, Leiper married Ceinwen Saron (d. 1966), a dentist; they had one son and two daughters.