Wallace Peters (April 1, 1924 – December 2018[1]) was a British entomologist and parasitologist. He is noted for his work on malaria and won the Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal for outstanding work in the field of malariology in 1994.[2] He also won Germany's Rudolf Leuckart Medal in 1980[3] and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal International Prize for Medicine in 1983. In 2004 he was awarded the Manson Medal.[4]
Among his doctoral students was Wendy Gibson.[5]
References
edit- ^ In Memoriam: LSTM Dean Professor Wallace Peters (1924 - 2018)
- ^ American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene site
- ^ Deutschen Gesellschaft für Parasitologie site
- ^ Previous medal winners. Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- ^ 50 Years of the Wellcome Trust 1936–1986. The Wellcome Trust. 1987. p. 139. ISBN 978-1869835019.
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