Sir Charles Ernest HercusDSO OBE VD (13 June 1888 – 26 March 1971) was a New Zealand doctor and professor of public health. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 13 June 1888. He was for many years dean of the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine.[1] The Hercus Building of the Dunedin campus, on the corner of Great King and Hanover Streets, is named for him.[2]
Hercus was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1947 New Year Honours.[3]
The Health Research Council of New Zealand offers an annual Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship, worth up to NZD600,000 "for emerging scientists who have demonstrated outstanding potential to develop into highly skilled researchers able to initiate new avenues of investigation", in his honour.[4]
^Dow, Derek A. "Charles Ernest Hercus". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
^"Lecture Theatres and Seminar Rooms - Hercus Building". University of Otago. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
^"No. 37836". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1947. p. 31.
^"Career development awards - 2022 Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship". gateway.hrc.govt.nz. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
School of Medicine. The Hercus Building of the Dunedin campus, on the corner of Great King and Hanover Streets, is named for him. Hercus was appointed a Knight...
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of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, and in 2009 was awarded a Sir CharlesHercus Fellowship from the Health Research Council of New Zealand and moved...
Hanover Street, Cumberland Street, and Frederick Street. These include the Hercus Building (Department of Pathology), the Adams Building (Department of Preventive...
the same year. Pickerill was to convince Hercus to study medicine upon completing his dentistry degree. Hercus went on to have a distinguished career in...
Medical Students' Association Fellowships Caroline Plummer Fellowship CharlesHercus Fellowship Children's Writer in Residence Claude McCarthy Fellowship...
Medical Students' Association Fellowships Caroline Plummer Fellowship CharlesHercus Fellowship Children's Writer in Residence Claude McCarthy Fellowship...
Medical Students' Association Fellowships Caroline Plummer Fellowship CharlesHercus Fellowship Children's Writer in Residence Claude McCarthy Fellowship...
Medical Students' Association Fellowships Caroline Plummer Fellowship CharlesHercus Fellowship Children's Writer in Residence Claude McCarthy Fellowship...
research into nutritional deficiencies at Otago, started by CharlesHercus, Noel Benson, Charles L. Carter and Muriel Bell, who showed in the 1920s that iodine...
aged 90. C.E. Hercus and E.S. Baker, Further consideration of endemic goitre, Part I New Zealand Medical Journal 22 (1923): 88. C.E. Hercus and E.S. Baker...
Professors Eric D'Ath (pathology), Alexander Murray Drennan (pathology) and CharlesHercus (bacteriology). During his time at the Medical School, among other things...
recruited to the University of Otago Medical School by Dr – later Sir – CharlesHercus in 1946, to the Medical Research Council Microbiology Unit. At the time...
into thyroid problems, administered by a committee headed by Sir CharlesHercus. Hercus encouraged Purves to take the Medical course, which he did between...
Australia: Early European records and recent experience". In Harold Koch; Luise Hercus (eds.). Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and re-naming the Australian landscape...
leaves. Bee brood Larva Silk Borror, D. J.; DeLong, Dwight M.; Triplehorn, Charles A. (2004). Introduction to the Study of Insects (Sixth ed.). New York:...
During the 1960s and 1970s samples of the language were recorded by Luise Hercus. The language is related to Yita Yita. Most of the tribal names of this...
Raymatta; Williams, Nancy M. (2009). "17. 'This place already has a name'". In Hercus, Luise; Koch, Harold (eds.). Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and Re-naming...
(2014). "Comitative placenames in central NSW" (PDF). In Clark, Ian D.; Hercus, Luise; Kostanski, Laura (eds.). Indigenous and Minority Placenames: Australian...
R. H. Mathews compiled early word-lists of the language. In 1963, Luise Hercus managed to recover many terms conserved by descendants living in Orbost...
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