The University of Liverpool named its new biological science building "The Ronald Ross Building" in his honour
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Ronald Ross
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 wa…
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science · British Indian medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1857–1932) · physician · mathematician · epidemiologist · poet · novelist · malariologist · microbiologist · zoologist · pathologist · botanist · also Ronald Ross, Ron.Ross, Sir Ronald Ross, Ross
Born 13 May 1857 · Died 16 September 1932 · Q102034
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2010· 1 entry
2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Atherosclerosis — An Inflammatory Disease” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 17,127 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Is based on the life of Ross in Calcutta
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1932· 1 entry
Died 1932-09-16.
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1929· 2 entries
Won Manson Medal (1929).
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1929).
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1928· 1 entry
Advertised his papers for sale in the journal Science Progress in the Twentieth Century (1919–1933), with a statement that the money was for financial support of his wife and family
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1926· 2 entries
Became Director-in-Chief of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which was established in honour of his works
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And established at Bath House, a grand house with keeper's lodge and large grounds adjacent to Tibbet's Corner at Putney Heath
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1923· 2 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1923).
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Won Albert Medal (1923).
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1918· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (1918).
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1914· 1 entry
Won Bisset Hawkins Medal (1914).
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1912· 2 entries
And in 1913 was the history of medicine section's vice-president
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Was appointed Physician for Tropical Diseases at King's College Hospital in London, and simultaneously hold the Chair of Tropical Sanitation in Liverpool
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1911· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1911).
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Was promoted to the rank of Knight Commander of the same Order
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1910· 2 entries
(2nd edition in 1911) and further elaborated in a more generalised form in scientific papers published by the Royal Society in 1915 and 1916; some of his epidemiology work was developed with mathematician Hilda Hudson
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At the centenary celebration of the Caroline Institute and his 1923 autobiography Memoirs was awarded that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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1909· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1909).
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1902· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902).
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Ross was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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"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"
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Was appointed a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath by King Edward VII
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1901· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1901).
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And of the Royal College of Surgeons in the same year
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1899· 1 entry
Ross resigned from the Indian Medical Service and went to England to join the faculty of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as a lecturer
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1897· 2 entries
Proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease
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An Italian physician and zoologist Giovanni Battista Grassi, along with his colleagues, had established the developmental stages of malaria parasites in anopheline mosquitoes; and they described the complete life cycles
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1889· 1 entry
Ross married Rosa Bessie Bloxam (d
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1883· 1 entry
Was posted as the Acting Garrison Surgeon at Bangalore during which he noticed the possibility of controlling mosquitoes by limiting their access to water
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1881· 1 entry
And after a four-month training at Army Medical School, was appointed a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on 5 April 1881, assigned to the Madras Presidency
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1879· 1 entry
Had passed the examinations for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and he worked as a ship's surgeon on a transatlantic steamship while studying for the licenciate of the Society of Apothecaries
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1873· 1 entry
At sixteen, he secured first position in the Oxford and Cambridge local examination in drawing
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1857· 1 entry
Born 1857-05-13.
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1712· 1 entry
“The Dying Christian to His Soul”
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