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Ronald Ross

Physician and Parasitologist

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Medicine Atlas. "Ronald Ross." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/ronald-ross.

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Medicine Atlas. (n.d.). Ronald Ross. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/ronald-ross

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@misc{medicineatlas-ronald-ross,
  author = {Medicine Atlas},
  title = {Ronald Ross},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/ronald-ross},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor who received the 1902 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, laying the foundation for the method of combating the disease.

Facts

Birth Yearthe subject's own account

1857 1

Birth Datethe subject's own account

1857-05-13 1

Death Yearthe subject's own account

1932 1

Death Datethe subject's own account

1932-09-16 1

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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.

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