Multiple choice

Who got the first Nobel Prize for his work on a deadly disease, while he posted in India?

  1. Ronald Ross

  2. Louis Pasteur

  3. Norman Borlaugh

  4. P. Subbarao
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Explanation

Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria transmission. While posted as a military doctor in India, he discovered that malaria parasites are transmitted by mosquitoes (specifically Anopheles mosquitoes) - a breakthrough he demonstrated in Secunderabad in 1897. This discovery was crucial for understanding and controlling the deadly disease of malaria.

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