Samuel Taylor Darling

{{Short description|American scientist (1872–1925)}} thumb|Samuel Taylor Darling '''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.<ref>{{cite book|author=E. Chaves-Carballo|title=The Tropical World of Samuel Taylor Darling: Parasites, Pathology and Philanthropy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zueauyQzcpMC|access-date=16 May 2012|year=2007|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-84519-183-2}}</ref>

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.<ref name=irish>Irish Journal of Medical Science (1926��1967) Volume 4, Number 12, p. 570</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| last1 = Peckham | first1 = C.| last2 = Gardiner | first2 = P.| last3 = Tibbenham | first3 = A.| title = Vision screening of adolescents and their use of glasses| journal = BMJ| volume = 1| issue = 6171| pages = 1111–1113| year = 1925| pmid = 444955| pmc = 1598732| doi = 10.1136/bmj.1.3363.1111-a}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | title = Samuel Taylor Darling 1872–1925 | year = 1925 | pages = 318–321 | issue = 5 | volume = s1-5| journal = American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | doi = 10.4269/ajtmh.1925.s1-5.318 | url = http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/abstract/s1-5/5/318| url-access = subscription }}</ref> The Darling Foundation prize for malaria research was established in his memory.<ref name=irish/> {{-}} {{botanist|Darling}}

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110510160139/http://darlingofpanama.com/ A website about Samuel Taylor Darling]

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