Ronald Ross

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Ronald Ross was a British physician and Nobel laureate best known for discovering that mosquitoes transmit malaria, a breakthrough that revolutionized tropical medicine and public health.

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Ronald Ross canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British person
Nobel laureate
human
malariologist
physician
awardReceived Buchanan Medal
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Order of St Michael and St George
Order of the Bath
burialPlace Putney Vale Cemetery
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1857-05-13
dateOfDeath 1932-09-16
educatedAt St Bartholomew’s Hospital complex
surface form: St Bartholomew's Hospital

St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College
surface form: St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College
employer Indian Medical Service
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
familyName Ross
fieldOfWork parasitology
public health
tropical medicine
fullName Ronald Ross self-link
genre medical writing
scientific literature
givenName Ronald
hasDiscipline epidemiology
medicine
influenced development of mosquito control strategies
public health policies in tropical regions
knownFor demonstrating that mosquitoes transmit malaria
founding work in tropical medicine
research on malaria parasites in mosquitoes
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
nationality British
NobelPrize.category Physiology or Medicine
NobelPrize.motivation 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
NobelPrize.year 1902
notableWork Studies on malaria transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes
The Prevention of Malaria
occupation bacteriologist
malariologist
physician
placeOfBirth Almora
British India
placeOfDeath London, England
surface form: London

Putney
positionHeld director of tropical medicine
professor of tropical medicine

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Ross hasNotableBearer Ronald Ross
Ronald Ross fullName Ronald Ross self-link
Patrick Manson influenced Ronald Ross