Basil Hetzel

Basil Stuart Hetzel AC (13 Yuni 1922 - 4 Fabrairu 2017) ya kasance mai binciken kiwon lafiya na Australiya wanda ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga yaki da karancin iodine, babban dalilin goitre da Cretinism a duk duniya.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Hetzel a Landan ga Elinor Hetzel (née Watt) da Kenneth Stuart Hetzel, masanin maganin rigakafi. Iyayen Hetzel sun fito ne daga Kudancin Australia amma a London a lokacin yayin da Kenneth ke aiki a Asibitin Kwalejin Jami'ar. Sun koma Adelaide a 1925. A can, tare da ɗan'uwansa Peter (an haife shi a 1924), ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Sarki da Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide. 

Hetzel ta yi karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Adelaide daga 1940 zuwa 1944. A matsayinsa na dalibi na likita, an ba shi matsayi na zama a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu . Daga baya ya nemi shiga Royal Australian Air Force a matsayin jami'in kiwon lafiya amma an hana shi saboda rashin cancanta saboda dogon fama da tarin fuka a shekarar 1945.

Ya kasance Masanin Bincike na Fulbright a cikin shekarun 1950 wanda ya haɗa da alƙawari a Asibitin New York. A shekara ta 1954, Hetzel da iyalinsa sun yi tafiya zuwa London inda ya gudanar da Bincike a Sashen Endocrinology da Metabolism a Asibitin St Thomas. 

 Ayyuka 
Ayyukansa na farko bayan kammala karatun likita ya kasance a matsayin Jami'in Kiwon Lafiya a Asibitin Mental na Parkside daga 1946 zuwa 1947. Bayan kammala aikinsa na Fulbright Scholar, an nada Hetzel a matsayin Masanin Bincike na Michell na farko a Jami'ar Adelaide, inda ya kasance na tsawon shekaru uku. Daga nan sai ya ɗauki matsayin mai karatu a fannin kiwon lafiya a Asibitin Sarauniya Elizabeth, Adelaide kafin ya koma Jami'ar Monash a matsayin Farfesa na Gidauniyar Kiwon Lafiya da Kiwon Lafiyar Jama'a. A shekara ta 2001, Asibitin Sarauniya Elizabeth ya kafa Cibiyar Nazarin Kiwon Lafiya ta Basil Hetzel don girmama shi.

A shekara ta 1956, Hetzel ya zama memba mai kafa Kungiyar Lafiya ta Kudancin Australia, kuma tare da wasu mambobi, ya ci gaba da taimakawa tare da kafa sabis na tallafin rikicin Lifeline wanda har yanzu ke gudana a yau.

Ya kuma rike mukamin shugaban farko na CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition. Hetzel ya kasance Shugaban Jami'ar Kudancin Australia daga 1992, jim kadan bayan kafa ta, har zuwa 1998. A shekara ta 2005, an sanya sunan ginin kimiyyar kiwon lafiya a harabar City East na jami'ar ginin Basil Hetzel kuma ɗakin karatu na harabar yana da ɗakin Hetzel wanda ya ƙunshi tarin bincikensa. Hetzel ya kasance Mataimakin Gwamna na Kudancin Australia daga Afrilu 1992 zuwa Mayu 2000. Ya kasance shugaban Cibiyar Firayim Minista ta Bob Hawke daga 1998 zuwa 2007. [1]

 Manazarta 
Hetzel, Basil (2005). Chance and Commitment: Memoirs of a Medical Scientist. pp. 8, 12.
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2017