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The BSD's oldest and most prestigious lecture. The Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize is given annually in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in any area of biomedical and biological sciences. It was established by the Ricketts family in 1912 in honor of Howard Taylor Ricketts, a pathologist at the University of Chicago who discovered the ...
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His family established an annual student research prize, the Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize, at the University of Chicago in 1912. Noteworthy recipients of the Ricketts Prize include Julian Herman Lewis (1913), Lauretta Bender (1923), Sara Elizabeth Branham (1924), G. M. Dack (1925), and Maurice Hilleman (1945). References
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Apr 30, 2024 · epidemic typhus. rickettsia. Howard T. Ricketts (born February 9, 1871, Findlay, Ohio, U.S.—died May 3, 1910, Mexico City, Mexico) was an American pathologist who discovered the causative organisms and mode of transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and epidemic typhus (known in Mexico, where Ricketts worked for a time and died of typhus ...
Mar 22, 2013 · In 1909 the government of Porfirio Diaz announced it would award a 50,000-peso prize for the discovery of the cause and cure of typhus. Howard Taylor Ricketts—a University of Chicago pathologist who had discovered that ticks carried and spread Rocky Mountain spotted fever—was one of the foreign scientists who answered the call.
