The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

Most recently the University of Liverpool has named a large Biological Science building in his honour. degree in Stockholm in 1910 at the centenary celebration of the Caroline Institute and his 1923 autobiography Memoirs Etc. Honors and awards

Ross received many honours in addition to the Nobel Prize and was given Honorary Membership of learned societies of most countries of Europe and of many other continents.

Sir Ronald Ross KCB FRS (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles and laid the foundation for combating the disease.