Английская Википедия:Ian McGregor (malariologist)

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Sir Ian Alexander McGregor, Шаблон:Post-nominals (26 August 1922 – 1 February 2007) was a Scottish malariologist.

McGregor was born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland.[1] His father was a tailor, his mother a housewife.[2]

He was educated at Rutherglen Academy, then studied medicine at St Mungo's College and Glasgow Royal Infirmary.[2]

He became interested in and studied malaria while undertaking National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Palestine,[3] undergoing training in malariology at the Middle East School of Hygiene at Dimra.[2]

In 1949, he was sent to The Gambia as a member of the Medical Research Council's Human Nutrition Research Unit,[3] and was appointed Director of the MRC's Gambian Field Station at Fajara in 1954.[3]

In 1980, he returned to the United Kingdom, as visiting professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.[3]

He was awarded the Darling Foundation Medal in 1974,[1] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981[4] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1959 New Year Honours;[5] a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1968 Birthday Honours;[6] and a Knight Bachelor in the 1982 Birthday Honours, "for services to Tropical Medicine".[7]

He served on several World Health Organization committees on malaria.[2]

He died at Homington, Wiltshire[1] in 2007.[2]

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