death_date death_place birth_place citizenship nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
08 september 1929 rome bologna , italy italy italian medicine malariology sapienza university of rome ospedale riuniti di roma 15 april 1862 marchiafava-bignami disease transmission of malaria amico bignami.jpg amico bignami
 amico bignami sapienza university of rome
amico bignami

amico bignami -lrb- 15 april 1862 -- 8 september 1929 -rrb- was an italian physician , pathologist , malariologist and sceptic .
he was professor of pathology at university of rome -lrb- now sapienza università di roma -rrb- .
his most important scientific contribution was in the discovery of transmission of human malarial parasite in the mosquito .
with researcher ettore marchiafava he described a neurological disease , which is now given the eponymous name marchiafava -- bignami disease .
