Industrial AgeMedicine & Health Ross shows mosquitoes spread malaria 1897Major In India, Ronald Ross finds malaria parasites in the gut of an Anopheles mosquito that fed on an infected patient, proving how malaria spreads. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Babylonian mathematics → Babylonian astronomical diaries → Thales and natural philosophy → Trial and death of Socrates → Plato's Academy → Aristotle's Lyceum → Alexander's conquests → Death of Alexander and the Hellenistic kingdoms → Seleucid Empire founded → Parthian Empire founded → Sasanian Empire → Birth of Muhammad → Muhammad's first revelations → The Hijra → Conquest of Mecca → Death of Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphate → Arab conquests → Abbasid Caliphate → Battle of Talas → Paper reaches the Islamic world → House of Wisdom → Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics → Eyeglasses → Compound microscope → Hooke's Micrographia → Cell theory → Pasteur's swan-neck flasks → Germ theory of disease → Malaria parasite identified → Ross shows mosquitoes spread malaria Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentnobelprize.orgRonald Ross, Nobel Prize facts (1902) ↗Editor's pickBookSonia ShahThe Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years ↗Editor's pickBookTimothy C. WinegardThe Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeRonald Ross malaria mosquito discovery ↗Editor's pick