Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

A British millitary officer in the Indian army had a son who was born in India and who went on

  1. Sir Roald Dahl

  2. Sir Patrick Manson

  3. Sir Ronald Ross

  4. Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Sir Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India in 1857 when his father was serving as a British military officer in the Indian army. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for discovering the malaria transmission cycle through mosquitoes. The other options are incorrect: Roald Dahl was a writer born in Wales, Patrick Manson was a physician known for tropical medicine but not born in India to a military officer, and Campbell Claye Grant Ross was Ronald Ross's son who became a famous novelist.

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