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Sir Ronald Ross KCB KCMG FRS FRCS (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) 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 Europe.
May 9, 2024 · Sir Ronald Ross (born May 13, 1857, Almora, India—died Sept. 16, 1932, Putney Heath, London, Eng.) was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was ...
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Oct 5, 2006 · Robert E Sinden reviews Ronald Ross’s pivotal work on the malaria parasite and comments on the potential for malaria vector research and control. ON SOME PECULIAR PIGMENTED CELLS FOUND IN TWO MOSQUITOS FED ON MALARIAL BLOOD.
- Robert E Sinden
- 2007
STUDY ON MALARIA. Ronald Ross used to suffer as a child seeing the malaria attack of his grandfather Lt. Col. Hugh Ross. Ross was determined to find a cure of the disease. During course of his Medical School, he saw a female patient presenting with muscle ache and high fever with chill and headache. That lady came from Essex marshes.
Jan 24, 2023 · It was given to Scottish pathologist Ronald Ross for proving that mosquitoes transmit malaria. Ross had made a groundbreaking discovery—today vector control (targeting the mosquitoes that transmit the malaria parasite) is still the cornerstone of the World Health Organisation’s anti-malaria strategy.
Apr 5, 2012 · Ronald Ross discussed malaria with Manson while in the United Kingdom, but conducted his research while serving in a military post in India, and in 1897 he demonstrated that mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites [4], [5].
Apr 1, 1998 · 900 Accesses. Metrics. Malaria has been in existence since ancient times, and for millennia thought to be carried by vapors. Ronald Ross' discovery of transmission of malaria by mosquitoes...
