Ronald Vernon Southcott

Ronald Vernon Southcott (15 ga Mayu 1918 - 9 ga Afrilu 1998) masanin ilimin dabbobi ne na Australiya wanda ya kware a cikin Acari, ƙwayoyin cuta da ƙwayoyin.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Southcott a Adelaide, ɗan Horace Lloyd Southcott (1891-1949), manajan darektan Southcott Limited, injiniyoyi. Bayan kammala makaranta a Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide Southcott ta fara aiki a kan ƙwayoyin cuta, ko acari, tana da shekaru 16 tare da Herbert Womersley masanin ilimin acarologist a Gidan Tarihin Kudancin Australia. Womersley ya bayyana kuma ya ba da sunan ƙwayoyin trombidiid, wanda Southcott ya tattara a kan tafiya ta keke a cikin tsaunuka kusa da Adelaide a 1934, Microtrombidium southcotti, bayan Southcott.R.B. Halliday & J.H. Pearn (1999). "Ronald Vernon Southcott Acarologist, Physician, Naturalist". International Journal of Acarology. 25 (2): 151–153. doi:10.1080/01647959908683627. Southcott ya yi la'akari da wannan aikin da Herb Womersley ya yi, "ya ja ni a kan ƙwayoyin cuta". Southcott ya yi karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Adelaide inda ya kammala a shekara ta 1941. Southcott ya yi aiki a cikin Sojojin Kiwon Lafiya na Sojojin Australiya daga 1942 zuwa 1946. Yayinda yake aiki a Cairns ya fara aiki a kan haraji da tasirin kiwon lafiya na jellyfish, batun da daga baya ya zama sananne. Fiye da takardunsa 230 a kan jan mites sun haɗa da sake dubawa na iyalai, ƙananan iyalai da jinsunan Erythroidea a cikin 1961, wanda ya sami D.Sc.

A duk rayuwarsa Southcott yana da sha'awar tasirin kiwon lafiya na shuke-shuke da dabbobi. Amma yawancin takardunsa da aka kwatanta da kyau suna kan tsarin jan mites. Southcott bai taba aiki a matsayin masanin ilimin halittu ba, amma ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kwamitin Gidan Tarihi na Kudancin Australia na shekaru da yawa. Ya samar da takardun sa masu ban sha'awa da yamma bayan aikin rana a Adelaide yana kula da bukatun kiwon lafiya na ma'aikatan da suka dawo. Yawancin takardunsa a kan ƙwayoyin cuta suna da ɗaruruwan shafuka. Ayyukansa na farko a kan akwatin jellyfish mai guba sosai, yana ɗaya daga cikin takardunsa na farko kuma kawai a kan cnidarian, Chironex fleckeri. Ya kuma ba da gudummawa kan tasirin kiwon lafiya na yawan amfani da hanta na masu binciken Arctic, wanda ke haifar da hypervitaminosis A.

 Iyali 
Southcott ta auri Heather Joyce Miller a watan Afrilun shekara ta 1952.J. Cleland und R. V. Southcott: Hypervitaminosis A in the Antarctic in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914: a possible explanation of the illness of Mertz and Mawson. In: Med. J. Aust. 1, 1969, S. 1337–1342

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1998
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1918