Prof. Saul Adler, Russian-born authority on parasitology and former dean of the faculty of medicine at the Hebrew University, died yesterday at the age of 70.
Dr. Adler, known for his discovery that Oriental sores were transmitted through the bite of the sandfly, was the only Israeli member of the British Royal Society. He had served as a clinical pathologist at the School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, as a research assistant at the Sir. Alfred Lewis Jones Research Laboratory in Sierra Leona and as a medical major in the British army.
He was recipient of the Chalmers Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, the Laveran Medal of the Societe de Pathologique Exotique, the Weizmann Prize for Medical Science and other honors. He was the only Israeli permitted to visit Communist China in recent years. He visited that country in 1964 at the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Science and lectured at Peking University.
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