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After becoming a military doctor at the behest of his father, Ronald Ross was destined to make a discovery of paramout importance, i.e., malaria transmission through mosquito bites. This landmark discovery that was the fruit of a combination of curiosity, tenacity and luck, earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine.