| Authorised form of name | Anderson; Ephraim Saul (1911 - 2006) |
| Other forms of surname | Anderson |
| Andy |
| Dates | 1911 - 2006 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 28/10/1911 |
| Date of death | 14/03/2006 |
| Occupation | Bacteriologist |
| Research field | Gastro-intestinal infections |
| Activity | Education:
Rutherford College; scholarship to King's College medical school, Newcastle (then part of Durham University); studied bacteriology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London
Career:
Worked in general practice and as a hospital physician; Royal Army Medical Corps, based in Cairo (1939-1944); gifted in languages, spoke Arabic, using this when he headed his own field investigation in Iran to trace individuals identified as carriers, but who had made a run for home instead of accepting treatment; after the war, spent a year as registrar in bacteriology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London (1946-1947); Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (studying typhoid phage types); joined the government research unit called the Enteric Reference Laboratory, Public Health Laboratory Service, London, (1947-1978), Deputy Director (1952-1954), Director (1954-1978); Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Drug Resistance in Enterobacteria, Colindale (1960-1978); working with Betty Hobbs, established that the 1964 typhoid fever epidemic in Aberdeen was almost certainly caused by Salmonella typhi sucked into an imperfectly sealed can of corned beef when it was dumped into contaminated water in Argentina to cool; Senior Advisor to the Swann Report (1969) which banned the use of antibiotics in animal feeding stuffs; delivered the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture to the Society for General Microbiology (1975); Honorary DSc, Edinburgh University (1975).
Honours:
CBE 1976
Publications:
'The World Problem of Salmonellosis' (1964) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1968 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| Relationships | Born of Estonian-Jewish immigrant parents |
| PublishedWorks | 'The World Problem of Salmonellosis' (1964) |
| Source | Obituaries:
'The Guardian' (22 March 2006); 'The Independent' (23 March 2006); 'The Times' (27 March 2006) 'The Herald' (3 April 2006) |
| Code | NA3897 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1968/01 | Anderson, Ephraim Saul: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PIF/A/41 | Personal information file: Ephraim Saul Anderson | 1977-2006 |
| IM/GA/GRS/5236 | Anderson, Ephraim Saul | nd |