Ronald Ross

1902 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

"for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it" --- http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1902/index.html

Quick Facts

• Born: 1857
• Birthplace: Almora, India
• Residence: United Kingdom
• Education: Studied at St. Bartholmew University
• Family: Wife, Rosa Bessie Bloxam; children Ronald, Charles, Dorothy and Sylvia
• Field of Study: Malaria
• Affiliations: Ross Institute; Indian Medical Service; Universtity College, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• Knighted: 1911
• Died: 1952
• Memoirs: J. Rowland, The Mosquito Man (1958)
• Major contribution: Discovery of the transmission of malaria by the mosquito

"Sir Ronald Ross demonstrated the life-cycle of the parasite of malaria in mosquitoes. He found the spieces of mosquitoes which convey the deadly African fever."

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Sources
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/oldnobel/laureates/medicine-1902-1-bio.html
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1902/index.html

1901 - Emil Adolf von Behring | 1903 - Niels Ryberg Finsen