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Robert S. Desowitz, PhD (January 2, 1926 in New York - March 24, 2008 in Pinehurst, North Carolina), was a researcher of tropical medicine, parasites, and malaria, and an author. == Life and career == Desowitch was born in New York where he attended Niagara Falls High School. He served in the United States Army from 1944-1946. He received a bachelor's degree from the University at Buffalo in 1948. He earned a double doctorate in parasitology and medical biology from the University of London in 1951. From 1951-1960, he worked for West African Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research in Vom, Nigeria.〔 In 1960, he joined the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine as Chairman of Medical Parasitology, where he worked until 1965. He then worked as Chief of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Laboratory's Department of Parisitology in Bangkok from 1965-1968.〔 While working there, he spent time doing research in Papua New Guinea.〔 Desowitch worked from 1968-1995 as a professor in public health, tropical medicine, and microbiology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii.〔 During his tenure there, he spent time researching malaria in Kenya.〔 Upon retirement as professor emeritus from the University of Hawaii, Desowitch worked as adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health.〔 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「Robert S. Desowitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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