Background
PESSÓA, Samuel Barnsley was born on June 4, 1898 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
PESSÓA, Samuel Barnsley was born on June 4, 1898 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Educated Colégio Anglo-Brasileiro, 1909-1913, Ginásio Oswaldo Cruz, 1914-1915, medical. school, University de Sao Paulo, 1916-1921, Institute of Tropical Medicine (Hamburg, Germany), 1927. Dr. honoris causa, medical. school, University do Recife.
Professor; Assistant, Institute de Higiene, Sao Paulo, 1922-1930. Professor, of parasitology, medical. school, University de Sao Paulo, since 1931. Taught university extension course at Recife, 1936.
General director, department, of health, Sao Paulo, 1942-1944.
Member: Associaqao Paulista de Medicina, Society de Biología, Society de Medicina e Cirurgia.