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ALBERT FREEMAN AFRICANUS KING, a pioneer in malariology, was born at Bicester, Oxfordshire, on January 18, 1841, the son of a doctor interested in the colonization of Africa. At the age of ten he migrated with his parents to the United States. He received his medical education at the National Medical College at Washington, where he graduated at the age of twenty, and four years later obtained the degree of M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He settled in practice in Washington, where he attended Abraham Lincoln at the time of his assassination in 1865. He was for many years professor of obstetrics in the George Washington University and in the University of Vermont, which latter institution conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1904. He was the author of a “Manual of Obstetrics”, which went through eleven editions; but he is best known for a paper entitled “Insects and Disease—Mosquitoes and Malaria” read before the Philosophical Society of Washington on February 10, 1882, and published in the Popular Science Monthly in September 1883, in which he gave nineteen reasons for believing that malaria is transmitted by the mosquito. He died in 1914.
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Albert King. Nature 147, 85 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147085d0
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