The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 was awarded to Ronald Ross 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.
Ross was born in Almora, India, and educated in Great Britain. Young Ross was witness to his father falling seriously ill with malaria. In 1881, he became a military medical officer in India. Ronald Ross began working in West Africa in 1899, to find a way to combat malaria.
Ronald Ross was the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe. He wrote ‘The Prevention of Malaria’ in 1910.
Ross returned to England in 1899, and joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He was knighted in 1911. In 1926, he became Director of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, named in honour of his work.
Ronald Ross died on 16th September, 1932.
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