Stamps Of Ronald Ross-Nobel Prize Winner For Discovering Malaria Parasite In Mosquito

 

Today was the day Nobel Prize Winner In 1902 Sir Ronald Ross was born in Almore In India.Today’s Stamp For The Day is the stamp released by India Post On Ronald Ross in 1997

Ronald Ross was a novelist, musician, scientist and Physician. Ronald Ross was awarded Nobel Prize in medicine in 1902 for his contribution to the pathogenesis of malaria. Malaria Parasite Carried By Mosquito Stamp By Great Britain Sir Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India. Ronald Ross was  son of the Commander of British Forces on NW Frontier. With reluctance Ronald Ross enrolled to study medicin at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and took his medical degree in 1879. On  returning to India, Ronald Ross entered Madras Medical Service as a Surgeon.   Stamp Of Alphonso Laveran In the year 1892, malaria caught his scientific interest . Alphonso Laveran had already discovered malarial parasite in 1880. Ronald Ross with the helping hands of Patrick Manson,Ronald Ross succeeded in working out the life cycle of the malarial parasite in sparrow. Ronald Ross discovered  the zygotes (the sexual forms) in the stomach of the anopheles mosquito.The sporoblasts (progency) were later identified in its salivary glands. The parasites were present only in insects that had dined on the blood of infected sparrow. Ronald Ross’s critical observations were carried out at the makeshift laboratory in Secunderabad and thus the parasite-mosquito-host cycle of malaria was established after 5 years of relentless toil, on 20th August 1897. In 1899, he retired from the IMS and in 1902 was appointed Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Liverpool, holding this post for 12 years. Ronald Ross was knighted in 1911. Sir Ronald Ross was reluctant to enter medicine, but contributed immensely to the mankind.

First Day Cover Of The Stamp On Ronald Ross Released By India Post In 1997

Almora In Uttarkand Where Ronald Ross Was Born

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