Personal Life
Wigglesworth served in the military in France in World War I. He received his degree from the University of Cambridge and lectured at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of London, and finally at the University of Cambridge.
He was named Quick Professor of Biology at the University of Cambridge in 1952, and knighted in 1964.
Wigglesworth was President of the Association of Applied Biologists from 1966-1967.
The bacterium Wigglesworthia glossinidia is named for him.
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