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Ronald Ross
said
This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised.
— "In Exile", pt. 7 (21 August 1897), Philosophies (London: J. Murray, 1910)
Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
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Lived 1857–1932, aged 75United Kingdom
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He proved mosquitoes carry malaria — a 1897 find that turned a ancient killer into something you could actually fight, and won him the 1902 Nobel.
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Ronald Ross was a British doctor who spent 25 years in the Indian Medical Service, where in 1897 he spotted the malarial parasite inside a mosquito's gut — the proof that mosquitoes transmit the disease. The Nobel came in 1902. After leaving India he taught at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for a decade, then in 1926 became Director-in-Chief of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, founded in his name. He stayed until his death in 1932. Outside medicine he wrote poems and novels, composed songs, painted, and dabbled in mathematics — a side catalogue that never quite esc…
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