Background
Christophers was born and raised in Liverpool, the son of Samuel Hunt and Kate Christophers and educated at the Liverpool Institute and University of Liverpool, graduating Bachelor of Medicine in 1896.
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Education
Christophers was born and raised in Liverpool, the son of Samuel Hunt and Kate Christophers and educated at the Liverpool Institute and University of Liverpool, graduating Bachelor of Medicine in 1896.
Career
In 1897, he took part in an Amazonian expedition and in 1898 went to Italy as part of the Malaria Commission, followed by a trip to Africa to study malaria. In 1901, the Malaria Commission moved to India. On his return to England in 1902, he became a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, moving back to India in 1904.
In 1910 he was appointed the first Director of the Central Malaria Bureau, coordinating anti-malarial training and research throughout India.
He spent World War I on anti-malaria duties in Iraq and in 1919 returned again to India as Director of the Central Research Institute at Kasauli in the foothills of the Himalayas. Christophers was also an honorary physician to King George V from 1927 to 1930.
He was awarded International Commission on Illumination in 1915, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1918 and knighted in 1931. He retired from the Indian Medical Service 27 November 1930 a Brevet Colonel.
He died at Broadstone in Dorset.
They had several children.
Achievements
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1926. He was the sixteenth president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1939 to 1943. An expert on tropical medicines, Christophers studied many diseases, particularly malaria. His work on the research of this disease won him the Royal Society"s 1952 Buchanan Medal for "outstanding research" on the Anopheles mosquito that transmitted malaria. In his career he also contributed to the taxonomy of other parasites.
Membership
Royal Society.
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Nationality
United Kingdom
Awards
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Fellow of the Royal Society Manson Medal; Buchanan Medal He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1926. He was the sixteenth president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1939 to 1943. An expert on tropical medicines, Christophers studied many diseases, particularly malaria. His work on the research of this disease won him the Royal Society's 1952 Buchanan Medal for "outstanding research" on the Anopheles mosquito that transmitted malaria. In his career he also contributed to the taxonomy of other parasites. The Buchanan Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every year 'in recognition of distinguished contribution to the medical sciences generally'.; The Manson Medal, named in honour of Sir Patrick Manson, is the highest accolade the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene awards.Fellow of the Royal Society Manson Medal; Buchanan Medal He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1926. He was the sixteenth president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1939 to 1943. An expert on tropical medicines, Christophers studied many diseases, particularly malaria. His work on the research of this disease won him the Royal Society's 1952 Buchanan Medal for "outstanding research" on the Anopheles mosquito that transmitted malaria. In his career he also contributed to the taxonomy of other parasites. The Buchanan Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every year 'in recognition of distinguished contribution to the medical sciences generally'.; The Manson Medal, named in honour of Sir Patrick Manson, is the highest accolade the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene awards.