About Samuel Taylor Darling
Lived 1872 – 1925 (aged 53). Samuel Taylor Darling was an American botanist, pathologist and physician.
Samuel Taylor Darling (April 6, 1872 in Harrison, New Jersey – May 21, 1925 in Beirut) was an American pathologist and bacteriologist who discovered the pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum in Panama in 1906.
He died in Beirut in a car accident together with British malariologist Norman Lothian while on a survey trip for the League of Nations malaria commission. The Darling Foundation prize for malaria research was established in his memory.
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American scientist (1872-1925)
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Samuel Taylor Darling was born on 6 April 1872 in Harrison.
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Samuel Taylor Darling died on 21 May 1925 in Beirut.
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Samuel Taylor Darling was a botanist, pathologist and physician.
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Samuel Taylor Darling was American.
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