MEDALLION - Ross

Name/Title

MEDALLION - Ross

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2020.09.19.13

Description

Born in Almora, India, Dr. Ross was a British Medical Doctor who built up his medical experience in the British Medical Corps in the early 20th Century. He was later deemed an expert in Tropical diseases. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine/ Physiology for discovering the Mosquito to be the vector that carried a parasite in its gut that was the causative factor for a fatal, febrile illness....Malaria.