Kolkata & Sir Ronald Ross
In the year 1897, on this day, Sir Ronald Ross succeeded in demonstrating the life-cycle of the parasites of malaria in mosquitoes. He demonstrated it in the laboratory of Presidency General Hospital (P. G. Hospital) in Kolkata. And for this great discovery he received Nobel Prize in 1902 in Physiology. Sir Ronald Ross was the first Indian received Nobel Prize. -- A. B.