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Contents. William C. Campbell (scientist) William Cecil Campbell FRS [ 1 ] (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish-American microbiologist known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. [ 2 ]
William C. Campbell was born in Ramelton, Ireland. He studied at Trinity College at the University of Dublin and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, where he earned his doctorate in 1957. He then worked for the pharmaceutical company Merck at its Institute for Therapeutic Research until 1990.
Campbell College moved back to Belfast. Figure 1. University of Wisconsin circa 1954, holding a sheep infected with Fascioloides magna. It was at Campbell College that I first learned of the existence of a parasitic worm. It was Fasciola hepatica, the common liver-fluke of sheep and cattle.
William C. Campbell: In my field of research there is a number of specific technical things, but I think the overall importance in the future and the thing that is not talked about is the need to have more natural means of disease control, and I think of disease in terms of parasitic disease.
Aug 7, 2020 · Author: Woilliam Campbell. ISBN-13: 978-1911479338. Publisher: Royal Irish Academy. Guideline Price: €24.99. Towards the close of his new memoir, Dr William Campbell, who in 2015 won the Nobel ...
Oct 9, 2015 · This week William C Campbell won the Nobel Prize in Medicine – only the second Irish scientist to win a Nobel Prize, after Ernest Walton in 1951. The Donegal man – he is from Ramelton – was ...
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William Cecil Campbell was born in Derry (aka Londonderry), Northern Ireland, in June 1930 and grew up across the border in the Irish town of Ramelton, Co. Donegal. An early interest in livestock may have been sparked by his father, a farm supplier who kept cattle and sheep, but a turning point came at the age of 16 on a trip with his boarding ...
