Walter Reed

Walter Reed

male, deceased (1902)
Methodist, from Virginia, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, Entomologist, yellow fever, mosquito
Major Walter Reed, M.D., (September 13 1851 - November 23 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which confirmed the theory...
Andrew Spielman

Andrew Spielman

male, deceased (2006)
Entomologist, lyme disease, harvard school of public health, Malaria, vector, entomology…mosquito
Andrew Spielman, Sc.D. was a prominent American public health entomologist and Professor of Tropical Public Health in the Department of Immunology...
Carlos Finlay

Carlos Finlay

male, deceased (1915)
Carlos Juan Finlay, mosquito, Cuban, scientist, physician, vector
Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3 1833 - August 20 1915, Havana), was a Cuban physician and scientist. Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay in Puerto...

James Carroll

male, deceased (1907)
United States Army, University of Maryland, College Park, Yellow Fever Commission, scientist, physician, University of Maryland…mosquito
James Carroll (b. Woolwich, England, June 5, 1854; d. Washington, D.C., September 16, 1907), Major, United States Army, was an American physician...
Patrick Manson

Patrick Manson

male, deceased (1922)
Doctor, Fellow of the Royal Society, Scottish, British, physician, Malaria…mosquito
Sir Patrick Manson was a British physician who made important discoveries in parasitology and was the founder of the tropical medicine field. He...
Geoffrey de Havilland

Geoffrey de Havilland

male, deceased (1965)
Sir Geoffrey Raoul de Havilland, Member of the Order of Merit, Royal Designer for Industry, FRAeS, Recipient of the Air Force Cross, British…mosquito, De Havilland Mosquito
Captain Sir Geoffrey Raoul de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was a British aviation pioneer and aircraft en...
Olivia Judson

Olivia Judson

female
Stanford University, Planned extinction, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Alumni of the University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Stanford University alumni…mosquito
Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. Under the pseudonym "Dr Tatiana" she wrote a light-hearted best-selling...
Ron Asheton

Ron Asheton

male, 61 years old
Dinosaur Jr., Legion of the Night, The Stooges member, same name, New Race, The Stooges…mosquito
Ron Asheton (b. July 17, 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is guitarist and co-songwriter with Iggy Pop for the rock band The Stooges for their first...
Fotis Kafatos

Fotis Kafatos

male (Germany)
Anopheles gambiae, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, mosquito, Cloning, Biologist, drosophila melanogaster
Fotis C. Kafatos (born in Heraklion,Crete, Greece) is a prominent Greek biologist. Kafatos received his Bachelor's degree at Cornell University,...
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

male, 62 years old
Yale University, vaccine, tanzania, Malaria, colombian, Pathologist…mosquito
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born November 3, 1947) is a Colombian pathologist who developed the world's first synthetic vaccine for malaria, a disease...