Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
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British doctor who cracked how malaria spreads via mosquitoes in 1897 and took home the 1902 Nobel Prize for it. His mosquito breakthrough became the playbook for fighting the disease.
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Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor. 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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