Ronald Ross (1857-1932)

Awarded the Prize “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.”

British bacteriologist. Ross was born on May 13, 1857, at Almora, India. He commenced the study of medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1875 and entered the Indian Medical Service in 1881. In 1926 he assumed the post of Director in Chief of the Ross Institute and Hospital of Tropical Diseases and Hygiene. In 1901 Ross was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also a Fellow of the Royal Society. Ross died in London on September 16, 1932.