biography
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| (1857–1932)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Almora, NE India. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, then joined the Indian Medical Service (1881–99). He became professor of tropical medicine at Liverpool, and directed the Ross Institute for Tropical Diseases from 1926. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the life cycle of the malaria parasite, discovered by Laveran, and laid the foundation for treatment in combatting the disease. |
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