Walter Myers (physician)
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Walter Myers
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| Born |
28 March 1872 Edgbaston, Birmingham United Kingdom |
| Died | 20 January 1901 (aged 28) Pará, Brazil |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Immunology, toxicology, parasitology |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater |
Birmingham University, University of Cambridge, London University, St Thomas' Hospital |
Walter Myers BSc, MA, MB BChir, MRCS, LRCP (28 March 1872 – 20 January 1901) was a British physician, toxicologist and parasitologist who died of yellow fever aged 28 while studying the disease in Brazil.
Walter Myers was born on 28 March 1872 in Edgbaston, the only son of George Myers (b.1841) and Flora Wertheimer (1851-1921) granddaughter of Chief Rabbi Akiba Wertheimer and niece of German philosopher Constantin Brunner. His older sister Violet was a classical singer and younger sister Stella was a noted psychologist and psychotherapist. His firstborn nephew, Walter Myers Churchill (b.1907 d.1942), was named in his memory.
Myers went to King Edward’s High School, Birmingham, as a Foundation Scholar.
In 1889 he left the High School with a Natural Science Scholarship, tenable for three years in Mason’s College, Birmingham (now Birmingham University), where he studied in the biological laboratory while preparing for the Intermediate BSc. Examination (London), and won the Senior Botanical Prize. In 1890, relinquishing this scholarship, he then went to Caius College Cambridge where he gained an open Natural Science Scholarship and received a First in Part I. At the same time he studied science at London University.
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