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@Vivek_Sunder Precisely yes

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A young Bengali graduate chases mosquitoes and malaria patients for a British doctor in Calcutta for days, helps crack how malaria spreads, a discovery that changed the fate of civilization, then watches his boss win the Nobel Prize without once saying his name. Thread. 1/22

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@Polls26WB @PrakashKona1967 Yes, and that work is an integral part of the clinical trial and discovery process. Not acknowledging the person who did it is akin to publishing something without proper citation. But within the colonial hierarchy, apparently, that was perfectly acceptable.

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@EmailMukherjee 🙏

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@surenban Sigh ! Yeah

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@PrakashKona1967 We don’t disagree, and there was never any doubt about that. The issue was never about sharing the award, but about not being given the recognition and acknowledgment that should have accompanied it.

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@auratkiawaz Formal biographical records for Mahomed Bux are virtually nonexistent, as his life outside his employment with Ross was largely left undocumented. Bux was a local resident of Calcutta seeking low-wage employment and hired as a field hand and help managing the experimental animals

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In Ross’s Nobel lecture on how malaria spreads, his name does not appear even once. But, Kishori Mohan didn’t wait for Ross to give him credit. He went back to the villages, teaching people how to protect themselves from the disease he had helped decode. 22/22

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So in 1927 he pooled whatever savings he had left after the Gold Medal, sold his wife’s gold ornaments, opened the Panihati Co-operative Bank. It left him almost penniless. Nearly a century later it is still running. 21/22