Ronald Ross

Key facts

Born

13 May 1857, Almora

Died

16 September 1932, London

State of birth

Almora, Uttarakhand

Sector

Literature & writing

Profession

British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)

Gender

Male

Biography

Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize for 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". His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease.

Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), reviewed by the RochakDuniya editorial team.

Timeline

1. 1857Born in Almora
2. 1901Awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society
3. 1902Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
4. 1909Awarded the Royal Medal
5. 1911Awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
6. 1914Awarded the Bisset Hawkins Medal
7. 1918Awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
8. 1923Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
9. 1923Awarded the Albert Medal
10. 1929Awarded the Manson Medal
11. 1929Awarded the Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
12. 1932Dies in London