Obituary : Jane Brotherton Walker (1925-2009)
Obituary : Jane Brotherton Walker (1925-2009)
Obituary : Jane Brotherton Walker (1925-2009)
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CURRICULUM VITAE<br />
JANE BROTHERTON WALKER<br />
Personal history<br />
Birth date: 31 January <strong>1925</strong><br />
Place of birth: Nairobi, Kenya<br />
Died: 3 April <strong>2009</strong><br />
Place of death: At home, Pretoria, South Africa<br />
Education<br />
1931-1937: Home-taught by her mother in Kenya.<br />
1938-1944: County High School for Girls, Retford, England.<br />
1944-1948: BSc (Honours), Liverpool University.<br />
1959: MSc, Liverpool University (External student).<br />
Dissertation: “A comparative study of the larvae and nymphae of<br />
ticks belonging to the genus Rhipicephalus in East Africa”.<br />
1960: Attended summer school courses in General Acarology and Medical<br />
and Veterinary Acarology at the Institute of Acarology, University of<br />
Maryland.<br />
1983: DSc, University of the Witwatersrand.<br />
Thesis: “Studies on African ticks (Acarina, Ixodoidea)”.<br />
Professional Career<br />
A. In the Research Branch of Her Majesty’s Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS)<br />
1949: Appointed research Officer (Enytomologist), East African Veterinary<br />
research Organization (EAVRO). Had 3 months post-graduate<br />
training with Dr Gertrud Theiler at the Veterinary Research Institute,<br />
Onderstepoort.<br />
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