David Nunes Nabarro
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David Nunes Nabarro | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 February 1874 London, England |
| Died | 3 October 1958 (aged 84) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University College Hospital |
| Known for | Sleeping Sickness Commission |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pathology |
| Institutions | University College, London Evelina London Children's Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children |
David Nunes Nabarro FRCP (27 February 1874 – 3 October 1958) was a British physician who was the first bacteriologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, and the hospital's first director of pathology.[1] In 1903, he with David Bruce, Aldo Castellani and Cuthbert Christy established that sleeping sickness was caused by the blood parasite, Trypanosoma, and that it was transmitted by tsetse fly.[2]
Nabarro was born in London to business parents. He was homeschooled till the age of 10. He entered Dame Alice Owen's School in Hertfordshire for secondary education and completed matriculation in 1890.[3] With Andrews Scholarship, he joined the University College Hospital, London,[4] from where he obtained a B.Sc. with honours in chemistry in 1893, at age 19.[1] He qualified an M.B. in 1898 and travelled to the Far East to study tropical diseases.[1] He briefly worked as house physician and demonstrator at UCH.[4]
Nabarro earned an M.D with gold medal in 1899. The same year he joined the faculty of the University College, London as an assistant professor of pathology. As he earned a Doctor of Public Health degree in 1901, he was inducted a member of the Royal College of Physicians,[3] and Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. He immediately worked as the first pathologist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital.[1]
In 1905, Nabarro worked at West Riding Asylum at Wakefield. Before long he was appointed pathologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where he worked till his retirement in 1939.[4]
