Saul Adler, Pioneer Researcher Stamp

One of Israel’s most outstanding scientists, Saul Adler’s research into malaria, cattle fever, leprosy and particularly, Leishmanial diseases won him international reputation. This April 1994 stamp issue features his portrait with sketches of the cycle of amastigot (intracellular) and promastigote (extracellular) stages of Leishmanial parasite transmission between rodent (Syrian hamster) hosts and the sandfly. Born in 1895 in Karelitz, Russia, Adler studied mecidine at Leeds University, U.K., specialising in tropical medicine.

He served as a doctor and pathologist with the British Army during WWI and in 1924 under the Zionist Movement he made his home in Jerusalem where he was appointed Professor and Director of the Parasitological Institute at the Hebrew University. He specialised in the research of tropical diseases, the transmission of pathogenic parasites to man and animal, and the immunology of protozoan infections. In addition to his great scientific and mathematical knowledge, Saul Adler studied Hebrew and Yiddish and was familiar with classic and modern Hebrew and English literature. The stamp with an information sheet are enclosed in a plastic protection sheet.