Saul Adler
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| Born | 17 May 1895 |
| Died | 25 January 1966 (aged 70) |
| Fields | Parasitology |
| Alma mater |
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine University of Leeds |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
Saul Adler FRS (Hebrew: שאול אדלר) (born 17 May 1895; died - 25 January 1966) was an Israeli expert on Parasitology.
Adler was born in 1895 in Kerelits (Karelichy), then in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus. In 1900, he and his family moved to England and they settled in Leeds. He studied at University of Leeds and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
One of his brothers was Solomon Adler, the economist.
From 1917 until 1920, Adler served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of Captain, serving in the Middle East, where he developed his first taste into research into tropical medicine, which he commenced studying after his military service, initially in Liverpool. In 1921, Adler went to Sierra Leone to conduct research into Malaria.
In 1924, Chaim Weizmann offered him a job in Jerusalem to develop the new Institute of Microbiology. Later that year, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine and started working in Hadassah Hospital, becoming director of the department of parasitology in 1927. In 1924, he became Assistant Professor of the Department of Parasitology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, serving as Professor from 1928 to 1955.
In 1930, in conjunction with Israel Aharoni, Adler had three golden hamsters brought back from Syria and successfully bred them as laboratory animals. Every domestic hamster that exists today is descended from the three brought back from Syria.
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