Giovanni Battista Grassi
| Giovanni Battista Grassi | |
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| Born |
27 March 1854 Rovellasca, Italy |
| Died | 4 May 1925 (aged 71) Rome, Italy |
| Resting place |
Fiumicino 41°28′N 12°08′E / 41.46°N 12.14°E |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Fields | Medicine, Entomology, Parasitology |
| Institutions |
University of Catania Sapienza University of Rome |
| Alma mater | University of Pavia |
| Doctoral students | Gustavo Pittaluga |
| Known for |
Plasmodium life cycle Malaria control |
| Notable awards | Darwin Medal |
Giovanni Battista Grassi (27 March 1854 – 4 May 1925) was an Italian physician and zoologist, most well known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania from 1883, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1895 until his death. His scientific contributions covered embryological development of honey bees, on heminth parasites, the vine parasite phylloxera, on migrations and metamorphosis in eels, and on termites. He was the first to describe and establish the life cycle of the human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, and discovered that only female anopheline mosquitoes are capable of transmitting the disease. His works in malaria remain a lasting controversy in the history of Nobel Prizes, because a British army surgeon Ronald Ross, who discovered the transmission of malarial parasite in birds was given the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. But Grassi, who demonstrated the complete route of transmission of human Plasmodium, and correctly identified the types of malarial parasite as well as the mosquito vector, Anopheles claviger, was denied.
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