Ronald Ross contracted malaria while in Ooty, India. Transferred to Secunderabad, he discovered the presence of malaria in a species of mosquito, the Anopheles. Following the hypothesis of his mentor, Sir Patrick Manson, he managed to find malaria in a mosquito that had bitten Hussain Khan, who was suffering from malaria. He would win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902. To prove his theory, Patrick Manson infected his own son (who fortunately recovered after a dose of quinine C20H24N2O2).
