Sir Ronald Ross, London, UK
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Sir Ronald Ross was a British physician who was awarded the The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 for his work demonstrating that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Date Posted: 03/20/2008
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Sir Ronald Ross
(see also this Wikipedia entry)
was a British physician whose main acheivements were in the field of malaria research
He demonstrated the life-cycle of the malaria parasite of in anopheles mosquitoes, thus establishing
that the disease is propagated by mosquitoes. He subsequently published mathematical work on the epidemiology
of the disease, the importance of which extended beyond epidemiology to other branches of mathematics.
He was also a poet, playwright and painter. His poetry received acclaim quite independent of his medical and mathematical work.
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Sir Ronald Ross
1857-1932
Nobel Laureate
Discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria
lived here