| 词条 | Rickard Christophers |
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| name = | birth_name = Samuel Rickard Christophers | native_name_lang = | image = Rickard Christophers.jpg | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1873|11|27}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1978|02|19|1873|11|27}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Manson Medal {{small|(1944)}} Buchanan Medal {{small|(1952)}} Fellow of the Royal Society[1] | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2012}}{{Use British English|date=April 2012}} Brevet Colonel Sir (Samuel) Rickard Christophers CIE, OBE, FRS[1] (27 November 1873 – 19 February 1978[2]) was a British protozoologist and medical entomologist specialising in mosquitoes.[3] EducationChristophers was born and raised in Liverpool, the son of Samuel Hunt Christophers and Mary Selina Christophers née Rickard and educated at the Liverpool Institute and University of Liverpool, graduating MB in 1896. CareerIn 1897, he took part in an Amazonian expedition and in 1898 went to Italy as part of the Malaria Commission, followed by a trip to Africa to study malaria. In 1901, the Malaria Commission moved to India.[4] On his return to England in 1902, he became a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, moving back to India in 1904. In 1910 he was appointed the first Director of the Central Malaria Bureau, coordinating anti-malarial training and research throughout India. He spent World War I on anti-malaria duties in Iraq and in 1919 returned again to India as Director of the Central Research Institute at Kasauli in the foothills of the Himalayas. Christophers was also an honorary physician to King George V from 1927 to 1930. He was awarded CIE in 1915, OBE in 1918 and knighted in 1931. He retired from the Indian Medical Service 27 November 1930 a Brevet Colonel.[5] On his retirement in 1932-38, he joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where he became Professor of Malaria Studies in the University of London and Leverhulme Fellow of the Medical Research Council in charge of the Malaria unit at the LSHTM.[6] In 1944 Christophers was awarded the Manson Medal by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for his significant contribution to the fields of tropical medicine and hygiene.[7] Personal lifeSir Philip Manson-Bahr, son-in-law of Sir Patrick Manson, described Sir Rickard Christophers in 1956: He died at Broadstone in Dorset. He had married Elise Emma Sherman in London in September 1902. She was the daughter of the owner of a coffee estate in India. Their first child, Elise Iseult, was born in June 1903 in Allahabad, India, and their son, Samuel Vagn, in December the following year in Madras. Lady Christophers died in England in 1962.[9] AwardsHe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1926.[1][10] He was the sixteenth president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1939 to 1943. An expert on tropical medicines, Christophers studied many diseases, particularly malaria. His work on the research of this disease won him the Royal Society's 1952 Buchanan Medal for "outstanding research" on the Anopheles mosquito that transmitted malaria. In his career he also contributed to the taxonomy of other parasites. Works
References{{Commons category}}1. ^1 2 {{Cite journal | last1 = Shortt | first1 = H. E. | last2 = Garnham | first2 = P. C. C. | authorlink2 = Cyril Garnham| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1979.0005 | title = Samuel Rickard Christophers. 27 November 1873-19 February 1978 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 25 | pages = 179–207 | year = 1979 | pmid = 11615792| pmc = }} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Christophers, Samuel Rickard}}2. ^Service, M.W. Obituary* Sir Rickard Christophers: A Tribute {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224711/http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/pdfs/MS11N01P055.PDF |date=26 September 2007 }} Mosquito Systematics Vol. 11 (l), 1979, 55–58 3. ^Obituary- Antenna (Royal Entomological Society Bulletin) 2 (2) 4. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/MS11N01P055.pdf|title= Mosquito Systematics|accessdate= 18 January 2011|deadurl= yes|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110302090124/http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/MS11N01P055.pdf|archivedate= 2 March 2011|df= dmy-all}} 5. ^Supplement to the January 1939 Indian Army List 6. ^{{Cite book|title=LSHTM Memoir II History of the School of Tropical Medicine in London 1899-1949|last=Manson-Bahr|first=Philip|publisher=H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd.|year=1956|isbn=|location=London|pages=202|via=}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=List of past medal holders|url=http://www.rstmh.org/awards/medals/list-past-medal-holders#Manson|publisher=Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910123308/http://www.rstmh.org/awards/medals/list-past-medal-holders#Manson|archivedate=10 September 2011|df=dmy-all}} 8. ^{{Cite book|title=LSHTM Memoir II History of the School of Tropical Medicine in London 1899-1949|last=Manson-Bahr|first=Philip|publisher=H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd|year=1956|isbn=|location=London|pages=202|via=}} 9. ^https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_118726_obituarysirrickardchristopher1979/MS_V11_N1_P055-58_djvu.txt 10. ^{{cite web|url= http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27christophers%27%29|title= Library and Archive Catalogue|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 22 December 2010}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 14 : 1873 births|1978 deaths|People educated at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys|People from Liverpool|British zoologists|British entomologists|English centenarians|Malariologists|Manson medal winners|British parasitologists|Scientists from Liverpool|Fellows of the Royal Society|Naturalists of British India|Indian Medical Service officers |
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