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Aldo Luigi Mario Castellani, Marchese di Chisimajo, KCMG (8 September 1874 [1] – 3 October 1971) was an Italian pathologist and bacteriologist. He is best remembered as discoverer of the etiology of sleeping sickness (with David Bruce, 1903) and Yaws (1905), as a pioneer in the development and use of combined vaccines .
Aldo Luigi Mario Castellani è stato un medico, batteriologo e patologo italiano. È stato lo scopritore del Trypanosoma brucei, il microrganismo che attraverso la puntura della mosca tse-tse provoca la malattia del sonno nell'Africa tropicale.
Aldo Castellani was one of those pioneers who initiated breath-taking discoveries and progress in medical sciences during the early years of this century with great personal engagement and courage. His striking findings, such as the so-called Absorption-Test, the introduction of multiple vaccination ….
Summary: Aldo Castellani was one of those pioneers who initiated breath-taking discoveries and progress in medical sciences during the early years of this century with great personal engagement and courage.
Aldo Castellani was the most famous figure in tropical medicine ever to be produced in Italy. He was born in Florence, the son of Ettore Castellani, one of a long and distinguished line of landowners in the Chianti region, and his wife Violante Giulani, who could claim Santa Veronica in her ancestry.
Sir Aldo Castellani. Date of birth 08 September 1877. Place Florence, Italy (Europe) Nomination 28 October 1936. Field Tropical and Subtropical Medicine. Title Professor of Tropical and Subtropical Medicine, London School of Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Place and date of death Lisbon, Portugal † 03 October 1971. Biography in Italian (PDF)
Italian medical researcher Aldo Castellani (1875-1971) was an expert on tropical disease and sleeping sickness who was knighted by British government in 1928 and taught in U.S. in 1920s and 1930s. He was stripped of his knighthood in 1940 because of his support for Italian government.
