Joseph Lennox Donatien Pawan, Trinidad & Tobago microbiologist (Port of Spain 06 September 1887 – 03 November 1957)
From Chinese descent
Authored classic studies on bat rabies epidemiology
With Hurst established the paralytic type of rabies virus manifestations in bats (1931-2)
Showed definitely the human transmission of rabies by bats (1936) proving the studies of Carini & Horta (1911)
First to isolate the rabies virus from a insectivorous bat (1936)
Developed a vaccine for bat rabies