Persona
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1881-1969
Robert Thomson Leiper was born in 1881in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow. His main focus of study was helminthology - the study of parasitic flatworms. He founded the Journal of Helminthology in 1923. He was the first professor of helminthology at the University of London and director of these studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - a post he held from 1905 until his retirement in 1947.