Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1902
Number:48 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Sir Ronald Ross
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1857
Year, Death:1932
Profession:lecturer, tropical pathology and therapy
University:University College
City:Liverpool
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902
 
Motivation:Work on malaria, especially the discovery that the malaria parasite is spread by mosquitos.
 
Nominator:
Name:Seved Ribbing
Gender:M
Profession:prof
University:Lund University
City:Lund
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Comments: Evaluation was made jointly by Carl Sundberg and Ernst Almquist, and included B. Grassi and R. Koch as well as R. Ross.
 

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