Spencer Lister
Sir Frederick Spencer Lister (8 April 1876 – 6 September 1939) was an English-born South African doctor and bacteriologist.
Lister was born in
Watford Football Club) as an amateur association football player, making twelve appearances and scoring three goals for the team in all competitions.[1]
He trained as a doctor at
South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. He later became Director of the Institute and Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 1928 he served on the South African Medical Council. He wrote important papers on pneumonia and influenza and was also an expert on leprosy
.
He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours, for services to bacteriology.[1][2]
Lister died of a
heart attack
in the library of the Institute for Medical Research.
Footnotes
- ^ ISBN 0-9527458-0-1.
- ^ "Colonial Office List", The Times, 1 January 1920
References
- Obituary, The Times, 8 September 1939
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