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Ronald Ross
Born 13 May 1857
Almora, British India
Died 16 September 1932.
London, England
Fields Tropical diseases
Institutions University College Liverpool
Alma mater St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
Known for Malaria
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902)

Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was an English doctor. He won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for work on malaria.

Images for kids

  • Sir R. Ross on steps of laboratory in Calcutta, 1898 Wellcome L0011943
    Ross, Mrs Ross, Mahomed Bux, and two other assistants at Cunningham’s laboratory of Presidency Hospital in Calcutta
  • Ronald Ross Memorial
    Ronald Ross Memorial, SSKM Hospital, Kolkata
  • Ronald Ross 18 Cavendish Square blue plaque

    Blue plaque, 18 Cavendish Square, London

  • Ronald Ross 4

    Ronald Ross

  • A horizontal gravestone, badly dilapidated and with grass growing among the cracks

    Ross's grave at Putney Vale Cemetery, London in 2014

  • Ross's name remembered on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    Ross's name remembered on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  • University of Liverpool plaque Ronald Ross

    Plaque at Liverpool University – on the Johnston Building, formerly the Johnston Laboratories, near Ashton Street, Liverpool


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