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Saul Adler

Saul Adler was an Israeli parasitologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for his research on parasitic diseases and his Hebrew translation of The Origin of Species.

1895 to 1966Research on parasitic diseasesHamsters as laboratory animalsHebrew translation of The Origin of Species

Born: 17 May 1895, Kareličy
Died: 25 January 1966, Jerusalem
Occupation: military physician, microbiologist, parasitologist, physician
Education: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Leeds

Saul Adler was born in 1895 in Kareličy

Adler was born in 1895 in Karelichy, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1900 his family moved to England and settled in Leeds. The economist Solomon Adler was one of his brothers.

He studied medicine at the University of Leeds, qualifying in 1917. From 1917 to 1920 he served as a doctor in the British Army in the Middle East. He then studied tropical medicine in Liverpool and researched malaria in Sierra Leone from 1921.

In 1924 he moved to Mandate Palestine at the invitation of Chaim Weizmann and worked at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. He joined the Hebrew University, became a professor in 1928 and headed its department of parasitology. He studied diseases such as leishmaniasis, malaria and dysentery, and helped bring Syrian hamsters into use as laboratory animals.

Adler translated Darwin's The Origin of Species into Hebrew, which earned him the Tchernichowsky Prize in 1962. He received the Israel Prize for medicine in 1957 and that year became the first Israeli citizen elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He retired in 1965 and died in Jerusalem in 1966.