“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”
Ronald Ross was a British physician. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria, showing how it enters the organism and laying the foundation for successful research on the disease and methods of combating it. His discoveries concerned the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes.
- Field
- Medicine · Infectious Diseases
- Lifespan
- 1857–1932