Professor Peter Jacobs FRRSAf

Abstract

Once in a while a country is fortunate enough to be blessed by someone who takes up the challenge to let the spheres of mediocrity be in order to take up the responsibility to lead and to guide a group of people into the future. South Africa, and in particular many South African individuals have been blessed over a number of decades by the self-denying sacrifice of Professor Peter Jacobs, one of South Africa's leading lights in the fields of Haematological Pathology and Clinical Haematology. These were heartfelt words that I wrote as accompaniment to the Centenary Medal awarded to Professor Peter Jacobs in 2009 by the South African Academy for Arts and Sciences. Very appropriately, as a man who dedicated most of his working life to teaching students, the award was presented to him in the student church in Bloemfontein at the University of the Free State.