Ernest Tyzzer

He was involved in cancer research but is particularly noted for his work in parasitology, describing numerous new species of avian parasites in a career spanning 40 years.

[1] Tyzzer attended Brown University from 1893–7, funding his studies on the proceeds of trapping animals such as fox and mink.

Before attending medical school, he obtained master's degree on flounder (a type of flatfish), partly undertaken at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

[4] In 1913, when he was an assistant professor and director of cancer research at Harvard University, he and two other scientists (Richard P. Strong and C. T. Brues) studied tropical diseases in Peru and Ecuador.

[2] Tyzzer was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1931 and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1942.