V. Sivalingam was a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

n academic and physician

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. Founder of the Faculty of Medicine

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, University of Peradeniya

University of Peradeniya

The University of Peradeniya is a world renowned state university in Sri Lanka, funded by the University Grants Commission...

 and the first Professor of Parasitology

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 of the University of Ceylon

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Educated at the Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

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, he studied medicine at the Colombo Medical College. He specialized in parasitology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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 of the University of London

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. Prof Sivalingam spent much of his career at the Colombo Medical College as lecturer and senior professor before moving to Peradeniya after his retirement to set up the 'Second Medical School' in Sri Lanka.

His son Professor S. Mahalingam

S. Mahalingam

Professor S. Mahalingam was a Sri Lankan academic and veterinarian. A Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, he was the Deanof the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine & Animal Science, University of PeradeniyaThe son of Professor V...

, was the former Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Peradeniya.