#English #physician, #bacteriologist and #mathematician who located the #malarial #parasite in th…
#English #physician, #bacteriologist and #mathematician who located the #malarial #parasite in the #gut of the #Anopheles #mosquito, identifying it as the disease #vector.
For this discovery he became the first #British Nobelist, when he was awarded the 1902 #NobelPrize for #Physiology or Medicine.
His study of #malaria began in 1892. By 1894 he conducted experiments in #India to determine the validity of the hypothesis of Alphonse Laveran and Patrick Manson that mosquitoes spread the disease.
It took two and a half years' effort before #Ross succeeded in elucidating the life-cycle of malarial parasites in mosquitoes.
In later work, in West #Africa, he also determined the mosquito species carrying the deadly #Africanfever.
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