birth_place notable_works article_title name occupation
1908 '' manual of tropical medicine '' -lrb- textbook -rrb- c. brooke worth
 charles brooke worth naturalist
c. brooke worth

charles brooke worth , md -lrb- born 1908 -rrb- was an american naturalist and virologist who worked as a professor at swathmore college , with the us army during wwii , and then with the rockefeller foundation during the post-war period .
he was the author of several books including `` manual of tropical medicine '' , `` a naturalist in trinidad '' , `` the nature of living things '' , and `` mosquito safari : a naturalist in southern africa '' , `` of mosquitoes , moths , and mice '' .
while at swathmore he an instructor in zoology .
during wwii he was assigned to the army medical school and was one of the instructors of the tropical medicine course and co-author of the `` manual of tropical medicine '' .
as a field staff member for the rockefeller foundation , dr. c. brooke worth went to the south african institute of medical research -lrb- saimr -rrb- in johannesburg in the 1950s and was able to carry out a remarkable series of field studies in south africa and mozambique .
in 1960 he was assigned to the trinidad lab in port of spain , associated with the university of the west indies .
