1. George Henry Falkiner Nuttall FRS was an American-British bacteriologist who contributed much to the knowledge of parasites and of insect carriers of diseases.
16 Facts About George Nuttall
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George Nuttall made significant innovative discoveries in immunology, about life under aseptic conditions, in blood chemistry, and about diseases transmitted by arthropods, especially ticks.
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George Nuttall carried out investigations into the distribution of Anopheline mosquitoes in England in relation to the previous prevalence of malaria there.
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George Nuttall then travelled with some of his family to Mexico for a year.
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George Nuttall worked on the tubercle bacillus and identified the bacillus responsible for gas gangrene, now known as Clostridium perfringens.
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From 1892 to 1899 George Nuttall was in Germany once more, first in Gottingen, then in Berlin, where he worked at the Hygienic Institute.
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In May 1899 George Nuttall travelled to Cambridge at the invitation of Clifford Allbutt, Regius Professor of Physic at the University, and gave a series of lectures in bacteriology.
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George Nuttall founded and edited the Journal of Hygiene, the first volume being published in 1901.
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George Nuttall built a substantial team within the Quick Laboratory working on many areas of parasitology.
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The number of published papers on parasitology was steadily increasing, and in 1908 George Nuttall founded the journal Parasitology, initially as a supplement to the Journal of Hygiene, but soon as a separate journal.
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In 1919 George Nuttall appealed for funds to create an Institute for Parasitical Research in Cambridge.
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George Nuttall's writings include some 150 articles in professional journals.
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George Nuttall resigned the Quick Professorshipin 1931, and became emeritus Professor of Biology.
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George Nuttall died suddenly in December 1937, and was survived by two sons, George and Winfred, and a daughter Carmelita.
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George Nuttall began working on ticks and tick-transmitted diseases in 1904.
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George Nuttall, carried out a series of studies that, as with many of his other researches, combined a theoretical and zoological approach with practical concerns.