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Major Kenneth Mellanby (26 March 1908 – 23 December 1993) was an English ecologist and entomologist. He received the OBE for his work on the scabies mite. ==Life and work== Mellanby was educated at Barnard Castle School and then at King's College, Cambridge. He gained his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on the ability of parasites to survive desiccation. He then worked as a Sorby Research Fellow of the Royal Society in Sheffield.〔 In the Second World War he studied the control of scabies mite, an infection that was keeping thousands of soldiers in hospital. He carried out research in volunteers at the Sorby Research Institute which he founded. He showed that the mite was unable to survive in bedding, but was transferred only by close contact. He showed further that a single treatment with benzyl benzoate provided a prompt cure. In 1945 he was awarded the OBE for this work.〔 Mellanby helped to found Nigeria's first University, the University of Ibadan and was its first principal (1947–1953).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Overview of Prof. Kenneth Mellanby )〕 Mellanby Hall, the university's first student hall of residence, is named after him.〔Tamuno 1981〕 On his return to England he worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and then became head of the Entomology Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station. In 1961, Mellanby founded and served as director of the Monks Wood Experimental Station, an ecological research center in Huntingdon, England.〔 He started the journal ''Environmental Pollution'' in 1970, and was the author of many books. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenneth Mellanby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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