Giovanni Battista Grassi
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Giovanni Battista Grassi was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the Universi
Giovanni Battista Grassi
Giovanni Battista Grassi
Statue of Grassi in the garden of Villa Borghese in Rome, Italy
Ronald Ross
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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 lai
Giovanni Battista Grassi
…Physiology or Medicine, he was nominated alongside French physician Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, who discovered P. falciparum, and British army surgeon Ronald Ross. He and Ross were shortlisted for the final award, but Ross who appeared to have make the least important discovery, the transmission of malarial…
Ronald Ross
The page in Ross' notebook where he recorded the "pigmented bodies" in mosquitoes that he later identified as malaria parasites
Plaque from the Ronald Ross Memorial, Kolkata
Ross, Mrs Ross, Mahomed Bux, and two other assistants at Cunningham's laboratory of Presidency Hospital in Calcutta