| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Sir S. Rickard Christophers, FRS, (1873-1978), graduated MB,ChB of the federal Victoria University in 1896 while a student at University College, Liverpool. He joined the Indian Medical Service in 1902 and was Officer in Charge of the Central Malaria Bureau, India, 1910-22, and Director of the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, India, 1922-32, before taking up the post of Professor of Malarial Studies, University of London.For further biographical information, see the entry for Sir Rickard in The Dictionary of National Biography 1971-1980 (1986), the biography in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol.25 (1979), and Professor Service's Tribute in Trans. of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene vol.72 (1978). |
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