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Ronald Ross

Ronald RossBorn: 13-May-1857
Birthplace: Almora, India
Died: 16-Sep-1932
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Illness

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Doctor

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes

Father: Sir C. C. G. Ross (British Army General)
Wife: Rosa Bessie Bloxam (m. 1889, d. 1931, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Ronald
Son: Charles
Daughter: Dorothy
Daughter: Sylvia

    Professor: Tropical Medicine, University College Liverpool (1902-12)

    Athenaeum Club (London)
    Royal College of Surgeons 1901
    Royal Society
    Nobel Prize for Medicine 1902
    Knighthood 1911

Author of books:
The Prevention of Malaria (1910, medicine)
Memoirs (1923, memoir)


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