Anton Sebastianpillai
Anton Sebastianpillai | |
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| Born | c. 1944 lexicographer, historian, bibliophile  |
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Anton Sebastianpillai
Tamil origin.[1]
Biography
He had his primary and secondary education at St Sylvester's College, Kandy and trained at Peradeniya Medical School, in Sri Lanka, qualifying in 1967.[2]
He gave talks to the Foreign Correspondents' Club, New Delhi, India, and gave the 'Millennium Oration' of the Sri Lanka Medical Association of North America.[3]
He died on 4 April 2020, at Kingston Hospital, London, after contracting COVID-19 while working there.[2][4] He had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on 31 March[1] and was aged 75.[5]
He was a
Works
As Anton Sebastian he wrote a number of reference works:
- A Dictionary of the History of Medicine. CRC Press. 1999.
- Dates in Medicine. CRC Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1850700951.[9]
- A Dictionary of the History of Science. CRC Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1850704188.[10]
- A Complete Illustrated History of Sri Lanka (2nd ed.). Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications. 2014. ISBN 978-9556651492.[3]
His Dictionary of the History of Medicine won a British Medical Association Medical Book Award.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Tributes for British Tamil Doctor On the Frontline Who Dies from Coronavirus". Tamil Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Doctor in his 70s dies at London hospital". BBC News. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Bringing Out the Very Essence of This Country". The Sunday Times. 26 February 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ Jenkinson, Orlando. "Tributes for Kingston Doctor Lost to Coronavirus". Sutton & Croydon Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "A Sri Lankan Born Doctor Succumbed To COVID-19 In London". Asian Tribune. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ ISSN 1468-4373.
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- PMC 1297448.
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