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Sir Ronald Ross KCB KCMG FRS FRCS [1] [2] (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) 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.
Ronald Ross (born February 11, 1983) is an American retired professional basketball player and coach. He played internationally for a number of years but he is best known for his collegiate career at Texas Tech University .
Ronald Ross, MBE (born 1975) is a retired Scottish shinty player who played for Kingussie Camanachd. He is a forward, the only man to have ever scored more than 1000 goals in the sport [ 1 ] and who has broken several other records as an individual and as part of Kingussie's record-breaking first team.
Sir Ronald Ross was posted as a general duty medical officer to the regiment stationed in Secunderabad in 1893. Though he was a surgeon by qualification, Ross was attracted towards research in tropical diseases, especially malaria. [2] During his posting, he worked on his research from a laboratory in the old Begumpet military hospital building.
But fortunately he met a British army surgeon Ronald Ross, who was on vacation while serving in the Indian Medical Service in India. [40] [41] In November 1894, he revealed to Ross with his hands on Ross' shoulders, saying, "Do you know, I have formed the theory that mosquitoes carry malaria just as they carry filaria." [4]
Ronald Ross (1857–1932) was an English physician and Nobel laureate; discoverer of the malaria parasite Ronald Ross may also refer to: Sir Ronald Ross, 2nd Baronet (1888–1968), Irish politician; Ulster Unionist Northern Irish member of parliament
World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female anopheline mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans. [1] Prior to the discovery of the transmitting organism, vector, there were few means for controlling the spread of the disease although the discovery of ...
Ross was so inspired by the word "lollipop" that she sat down at the piano and produced a version of the song on the spot. Beverly Ross recorded a demo with Ronald Gumm (or Gumps), a 13-year-old neighbor of Dixson, under the name Ronald & Ruby. Ross's mother insisted that she use a pseudonym for safety reasons, because they were an interracial duo.