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Ronald
Ross, 1902: "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". Ronald Ross demonstrated the oocyst of
malarial parasite in the gut wall of a mosquito on August 20,
1897 in Secunderabad, India. |
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Ronald Ross (1857-1932) |
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Alphonse Laveran,
1907: "In
recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in
causing diseases". Laveran was the first to notice
parasites in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria on
November 6, 1880 at Constantine, Algeria. |
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Laveran (1845-1922) |
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Julius Wagner-Jauregg,
1927: "For his discovery of the therapeutic value
of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica". A
professor of psychiatry and neurology in Vienna (Austria), Wagner-Jauregg
developed methods for treating general paresis (advanced stage of
neurosyphilis) by inducing fever through deliberate infection of
patients with malaria parasites. This method was used in the 1920s and 1930s.
In the 1940s, the advent of penicillin and more modern methods of
treatment made such "malaria therapy" obsolete. |
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Jauregg (1857-1949) |
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Paul Hermann Müller,
1948: "For his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact
poison against several arthropods".
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Paul Muller
(1899-1965) |
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And for Camillo Golgi
for his work on the nervous system... |
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Camillo Golgi,
1906: Golgi shared the Nobel Prize with Santiago Ramón Cajal for their studies on the structure of the nervous system.
Golgi made significant contributions to malaria research as well |
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