1902 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
"for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it"
--- http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1902/index.html
Quick Facts
"Sir Ronald Ross demonstrated the
life-cycle of the parasite of malaria in mosquitoes. He found the spieces of mosquitoes which convey the deadly
African fever."
Sources
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/oldnobel/laureates/medicine-1902-1-bio.html
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1902/index.html
1901 - Emil Adolf von Behring | 1903 - Niels Ryberg Finsen