George Nuttall

George Henry Falkiner Nuttall ( born July 5, 1862 in San Francisco, † December 16, 1937 in London) was a British biologist who has made ​​an exemplary contribution in the field of parasitology and hygiene.

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Life

Youth and Education

George Henry Falkiner Nuttall was the second son of Robert Kennedy Nuttall (1815-1881), a doctor from Aberdeen, and Mary Magdalene Parrott Nuttall, born Parrott (1834-1911), born in San Francisco. His older sister Zelia Nuttall Mary Magdalene (1857-1933) was an archaeologist and anthropologist. His father moved to Australia, and later he practiced in San Francisco until 1865 as a doctor. Then he returned to Europe. Nuttall learned his basic training in the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland. From 1878 he studied in the USA at the University of California and received in 1884 the Ph.D. in medicine and philosophy.

Professional career

1885 Nuttall was appointed to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he worked with Henry Newell Martin. Nuttall lived from 1886 to 1890 in Germany, first in Breslau (now Poland) and then. Göttingen, where he became interested in botany and zoology, more and more In 1891 he returned to Baltimore, where he became an assistant under the pathologist Prof. William Henry Welch ( 1850-1934 ). They studied together, the gas production by Bacillus welchii, a rod-shaped bacterium.

In 1893 Nuttall returned again to Europe and assisted Max Rubner ( 1854-1932 ) and Kurt Wolfgang Wolffhügel ( 1869-1951 ) at the Institute of Hygiene in Göttingen and Berlin. He married 1895 Paula of Oertzen kittens village.

In May 1899, he followed the request of Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt ( 1836-1925 ) to give at the University of Cambridge lectures on hygiene in medicine, which he also founded the Journal of Hygiene. With several other researchers studying the history of malaria in the United Kingdom and the spread of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Due to his research and that of Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922), he convinced the staff of the University to establish the disciplines Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1904. In the same year he wrote the monograph Blood immunity and blood relationship, in which he analyzed, among others, the blood of 600 different animal species by immunoprecipitation. The possibilities that were opened by particular phylogeny and forensics benefit.

In May 1906 Nuttall was a member at Christ Church College, and began to be active in teaching. In October of the same year he founded the Department of Biology and was a member at Magdalene College. This chair was also imposed on the study of protozoa and the diseases caused by them. Thus Nuttall began with Cecil Warburton (1854-1958) and Louis Edward Robinson to explore the disease transmission by mites. In 1908 he founded the journal Parasitology and until 1933 was its director. During the First World War, he placed special emphasis on the research of lice. Because of poor research conditions he asked for funds to establish an Institute of Parasitology. So he received from the family Molteno ( Percy Alport Molteno, 1861-1937 ) an extremely generous donation and founded the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology for parasitological research, which was opened officially in 1921. In 1931 he gave up his chair to David Keilin ( 1887-1963 ) and became professor emeritus.

Awards

He received awards from several universities. In 1904 he was admitted as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society. He received the Order of the Crown of King Leopold II of Belgium and was appointed Commander of the French Legion of Honour.

Bibliography (excerpt)

Nuttall has published over 200 publications.

Works

  • George HF Nuttall: Contributions to the knowledge of immunity. Göttingen 1890.
  • George HF Nuttall et al.: Blood immunity and blood relationship. Cambridge 1904.
  • George H. F. Nuttall: Canine fixation test for piroplasmosis. Cambridge 1904-07.
  • George HF Nuttall et al.: The bacteriology of diphtheria. Cambridge 1908-13.
  • George H. F. Nuttall et al.: Ticks. Cambridge 1908-26.
  • George HF Nuttall: On the role of insects, arachnids, and myriapods as carriers in the spread of bacterial and parasitic diseases of man and animals. In: Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports. Volume 8:1 / 2, Baltimore, 1899.
  • George HF Nuttall: The Poisons Given Off by Parasitic Worms in Man and Animals. In: The American Naturalist. Volume 33, Chicago, 1899. ISSN 0003-0147
  • George HF Nuttall: On the Formation of Specific Anti- Bodies in the Blood. In: The American Naturalist. Volume 35, Chicago, 1901. ISSN 0003-0147
  • George HF Nuttall: Combating lousiness among soldiers and Civilians. In: Parasitology. Volume 10:4, Cambridge, 1918. ISSN 0031-1820
  • George HF Nuttall: Symbiosis in Animals and Plants. In: The American Naturalist. Volume 57, Chicago, 1923. ISSN 0003-0147
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