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David Bruce

1855 - 1931

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Major-General Sir David Bruce, (29 May 1855 – 27 November 1931) was a Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who made some of the key contributions in tropical medicine. In 1887, he discovered a bacterium, now called Brucella, that caused what was known as Malta fever. In 1894, he discovered a protozoan parasite, named Trypanosoma brucei, as the causative pathogen of nagana (animal trypanosomiasis). Working in the Army Medical Services and the Royal Army Medical Corps, Bruce's major scientific collaborator was his microbiologist wife Mary Elizabeth Bruce (née Steele), with whom he published around thirty technical papers out of his 172 papers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Bruce is the 319th most popular biologist (up from 338th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Australia and the 3rd most popular Australian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Bruce ranks 319 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Gegenbaur, Gerrit Smith Miller, Jean Victoir Audouin, Ian Wilmut, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, and Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben. After him are Christian Ludwig Brehm, Erich von Tschermak, Willi Hennig, Andrew Fire, Erik Acharius, and David Baltimore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, David Bruce ranks 31. Before him are Guido Adler, Louis de Beaufront, Vlaho Bukovac, Axel Paulsen, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Robert Koldewey. After him are Paul Émile Appell, Edwin Hall, Alexandros Zaimis, Vsevolod Garshin, Xu Shichang, and Eduard Meyer. Among people deceased in 1931, David Bruce ranks 49. Before him are Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Eugene de Blaas, Thomas Lipton, Charles Algernon Parsons, and Mohammad Ali Jauhar. After him are Chandra Shekhar Azad, Shibusawa Eiichi, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Salvatore Maranzano, Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme, and Lujo Brentano.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, David Bruce ranks 78 out of 1,143. Before him are Raymond Dart (1893), Mick Doohan (1965), Ken Rosewall (1934), John Newcombe (1944), Kerry Melville (1947), and Bryan Brown (1947). After him are Cassandra Harris (1948), John Noble (1948), Phil Rudd (1954), Harold Holt (1908), Rhonda Byrne (1945), and Angela White (1985).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Australia

Among biologists born in Australia, David Bruce ranks 3. Before him are Macfarlane Burnet (1899), and Elizabeth Blackburn (1948). After him are Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936), David A. Sinclair (1969), Frank Fenner (1914), and Suzanne Cory (1942).

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