Saul Adler FRS
שאול אדלר
Born	(1895-05-17)17 May 1895[citation needed]
Died	25 January 1966(1966-01-25) (aged 70)[2]
Alma mater	Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine University of Leeds
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Parasitology

Saul AdlerOBEFRS (Hebrew:שאול אדלר; May 17, 1895 – January 25, 1966) was an Israeli expert onparasitology.^[3]

Adler was born in 1895 in Kerelits (Karelichy), then in theRussian Empire, now inBelarus. In 1900, he and his family moved to England and they settled inLeeds. He studied atUniversity of Leeds and theLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

One of his brothers wasSolomon Adler, the economist.

From 1917 until 1920, Adler served in theRoyal Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of captain, serving in the Middle East, where he developed his first taste into research intotropical medicine, which he commenced studying after his military service, initially in Liverpool.^[4] In 1921, Adler went toSierra 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 toMandate Palestine and started working inHadassah Hospital, becoming director of the department of parasitology in 1927. In 1924, he became Assistant Professor of the Department of Parasitology at theHebrew University of Jerusalem, serving as Professor from 1928 to 1955.

In 1930, in conjunction withIsrael Aharoni, Adler had three Syrianhamsters brought back fromSyria and successfully bred them as laboratory animals. This led to thedomestication of the Syrian hamster.

In the 1940s he was a leader in developing aleishmaniasis vaccine using live parasites, a practice widespread in Israel and Russia until the 1980s, when large-scale clinical trials showed that the practice led to long-term skin lesions, exacerbation of psoriasis, and immunosuppression in some people.^[5][6]

• University of Leeds, MB, ChB, Leeds, 1917;
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, DTM, Liverpool, 1920;
• MRCP 1937;
• FRCP 1958.

• In 1933,Chalmers Medal of theRoyal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (London).
• In 1944, elected Chairman of Free Faculty of Medicine of theHebrew University of Jerusalem.
• In 1947, receivedOrder of the British Empire (OBE)
• In 1957, awarded theIsrael Prize, for medicine.^[7]
• In 1957, electedFellow of the Royal Society (London). He was the first Israeli citizen to be elected.
• In 1965, awardedHonorary doctorate from theUniversity of Leeds.
• In 1966, received theSolomon Bublick Award of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[8]
• Awarded theOrder of the Phoenix, (Greece).
• He also received theTchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation, for his translation ofThe Origin of Species byCharles Darwin.

• He helped find the cure for malaria.
• A street in Jerusalem is named after him.
• A room in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was built in his honour.
• His portrait appeared on a stamp in Israel in 1995.^[4]
• He proposed that Charles Darwin's 'mystery illness' was Chagas Disease (American trypanosomiasis).^[9] Although this diagnosis has now been disproved, this proposal did much to excite interest in Darwin's chronic ill health.

Saul Adler died inJerusalem on 25 January 1966.^{[citation needed]} His funeral was attended by the President of Israel.

• In 1925, he publishedSand Flies to Man, a book on the Transmission of Leishmaniasis.
• In 1960, he translated Charles Darwin'sThe Origin of Species into Hebrew.

• Eva Telkes:Dictionnaire biographique de la première génération de professeurs de l’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem /Biographical Dictionary of the First Generation of Professors at the Hebrew University of JerusalemBulletin du Centre de recherche français de Jérusalem 2.1998 (Sample entry: "Shaul" Adler).

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