Wigglesworth served in the
Royal Field Artillery 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, appointed CBE in 1951, and knighted in 1964. Wigglesworth was President of the
Royal Entomological Society from 1963 to 1964 and the
Association of Applied Biologists from 1966 to 1967. He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960, the United States
National Academy of Sciences in 1971, and the
American Philosophical Society in 1982. He married Mable K Semple in
St Albans in 1922. They had four children. The
bacterium Wigglesworthia glossinidia, which lives in the gut of the
tsetse fly, is named for him. ==Works==