biography
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Wright, Sir (Almroth) Edward
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| male
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| lived:
| (1861–1947)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Middleton Tyas, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Dublin, Leipzig, Strasbourg, and Marburg universities, and became professor of pathology at the Army Medical School (1892), where he developed an anti-typhoid vaccine used successfully during the Boer War and World War 1. After the war he continued research into parasitic diseases at St Mary's Hospital, London, working alongside Alexander Fleming. He was knighted in 1906. |
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