| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1901 |
| Number: | 78 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Sir Patrick Manson |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1844 |
| Year, Death: | 1922 |
| Profession: | lecturer tropical disease |
| University: | St Georges Hospital |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Sir Ronald Ross |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1857 |
| Year, Death: | 1932 |
| Profession: | lecturer, former surgeon Major |
| University: | University College Liverpool |
| City: | Liverpool |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| University: | School of Tropical Medicine |
| City: | Liverpool |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 |
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| Motivation: | P. Manson: Proposed the idea that the malaria parasite has a life-cycle similar to Filaria.
R. Ross: Experimental studies of the mosquito as bearer of malaria (see comment). |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | W H Gaskell |
| Gender: | M |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| City: | Cambridge |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Comments: |
Evaluation was made jointly by Carl Sundberg, Ernst Almquist and Ragunda Hammarstrand, and included Ross, Manson, Laveran, Grassi, Bastianelli and Bignami.
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