Wallace Peters

Wallace Peters (April 1, 1924 – December 2018[1]) was a British entomologist and parasitologist. He is noted for his work on malaria and won the Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal for outstanding work in the field of malariology in 1994.[2] He also won Germany's Rudolf Leuckart Medal in 1980[3] and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal International Prize for Medicine in 1983. In 2004 he was awarded the Manson Medal.[4]

Among his doctoral students was Wendy Gibson.[5]

References
  1. In Memoriam: LSTM Dean Professor Wallace Peters (1924 - 2018)
  2. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene site
  3. Deutschen Gesellschaft für Parasitologie site
  4. Previous medal winners. Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  5. 50 Years of the Wellcome Trust 1936–1986. The Wellcome Trust. 1987. p. 139. ISBN 978-1869835019.
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