Commemoration
Working in the Indian Medical Service in 1897, British physician Ronald Ross discovered a malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito, proving that these insects transmitted the disease. He sent a poem to his wife that’s now inscribed on a monument in Kolkata:
Image: Wikimedia CommonsHe won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902, the first British Nobel laureate.
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