Awards & Winners

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Date of Birth 28-February-1911
Place of Birth Enniskillen
(United Kingdom, Ireland, Fermanagh District Council, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Dr. Denis Parsons Burkitt
Profession Surgeon, Physician
Denis Parsons Burkitt FRS, surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the son of James Parsons Burkitt. Aged eleven he lost his right eye in an accident. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen and Dean Close School, England. In 1929 Burkitt entered Trinity College, Dublin, to study engineering but believing his evangelical calling was to be a doctor he transferred to medicine. In 1938 he passed the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons fellowship examinations. On 28 July 1943 he married Olive Rogers. During World War II, Burkitt served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in England and later in Kenya and Somaliland. After the war Burkitt decided his future lay in medical service in the developing world and he moved to Uganda. He eventually settled in Kampala and remained there until 1964.

Awards by Denis Parsons Burkitt

Check all the awards nominated and won by Denis Parsons Burkitt.

1973


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his recognition, clinical description and brilliant epidemiological study of the unusual lymphoma in Africa which now bears his name.)

1972


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For his outstanding contribution in first identifying Burkitt's tumor.)
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize