Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor who received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, laying the foundation for the method of combating the disease.
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What did Ronald Ross discover about malaria?
He found the malarial parasite in a mosquito in 1897, proving mosquitoes transmit malaria, and won the 1902 Nobel Prize.
Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor who, in 1897, discovered the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito. This proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes and laid the foundation for methods of combating the disease. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this work on malaria.
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He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it". His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease.
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May 13, 1857
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September 16, 1932
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He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it".
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