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 to win a Nobel for his work on medicines. Name him.

  1. Sir Roald Dahl

  2. Sir Patrick Manson

  3. Sir Ronald Ross

  4. Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross
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Explanation

Sir Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India in 1857 when his father was serving as a British military officer. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his groundbreaking work demonstrating that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, which revolutionized tropical medicine. The other options are incorrect: Roald Dahl was a British author, Patrick Manson was a Scottish physician who mentored Ross but wasn't born in India, and Campbell Claye Grant Ross was Ronald Ross's son.

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