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SIR ARNOLD THEILER, founder and first Secondly, said General Smuts, South Africans had director of the Veterinary Research Institute at been prone to honour men who had held high public Onderstepoort, near Pretoria, South Africa, died in posts in their country-statesmen, soldiers and out-London on July 25, 1936. His great services to standing public men. Sir Arnold, however, had not veterinary science were widely recognized during his been in the public eye, he had not occupied a high lifetime and many re wards and honours were showered on him. He received no less than seven honorary doctorates. Of other great distinctions may be mentioned his election to the Paris Academy of Sciences, the award of the Laveran Gold Medal, the Budapest Gold Medal, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. He was an honorary or corresponding member of some twenty scientific societies.
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Memorial to Sir Arnold Theiler. Nature 145, 557 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145557a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145557a0