Richard Lacey
- January 11, 2024
- Microbiologist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Richard Lacey |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 11, 1940(1940-10-11) |
| Age | 84 |
| Date Of Death | 3 February 2019; Rawdon, West Yorkshire |
| Birthplace | Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth City | England |
| Horoscope | Libra |
Richard Lacey Biography
| Birthday | Oct 11 |
| Birth Year | 1940 |
Richard Lacey is one of the most popular and richest Microbiologist who was born on October 11, 1940 in Essex, England, United Kingdom.
Lacey read medicine at the University of Cambridge. Subsequently he became a Lecturer, later Reader at the University of Bristol where he gained his PhD. He was appointed to the Chair of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Leeds in 1983 where he remained until his retirement in 1998 to become an Emeritus Professor.
In 1990 Lacey was ridiculed for suggesting a link between Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. He was vindicated in 1996. Lacey warned of the dangers of BSE before the crisis was revealed by the government. Lacey believed there was a “systematic cover-up” from the government and scientists about the dangers of food that British people eat. He made headlines after a Sunday Times interview in which he called for the slaughter of all BSE-infected herds. Lacey gave up eating beef in 1988 but was not a vegetarian. He stated he was not conspiracy theorist until the crisis of BSE.
Richard Lacey Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Microbiologist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Richard Lacey is one of the richest Microbiologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Lacey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Professor Richard Westgarth Lacey (11 October 1940 – 3 February 2019) was a British microbiologist and writer, known for arguing that Bovine spongiform encephalopathy “mad cow disease” can be passed to humans.
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