Ronald Ross
Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross KCB KCMG FRS FRCS, was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside of Europe. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease. He was quite a polymath,...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 May 1857