Samuel Rickard Christophers
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Sir Samuel Rickard Christophers (November 27, 1873 - February 19, 1978) was a British protozoologist.
An expert on tropical medicines, Christophers studied many diseases, particularly malaria. His work on the research of this disease won him the Royal Society's 1952 Buchanan Medal for "outstanding research" on the Anopheles mosquito that transmitted malaria. In his career he also contributed to the taxonomy of other parasites.
Christophers was also an honorary physician to King George V from 1927 to 1930.