Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross KCB KCMG FRS FRCS 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. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malariawas transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease. He was a polymath, writing a number of poems, published several novels, and composed songs. He worked in the Indian Medical Service for 25 years. It was during his service that he made the groundbreaking medical discovery. Ross died at the hospital of his namesake after a long illness and asthma attack on 16 September 1932.