Obituary, Colonel
Sir Ronald Ross. Indian J Med Res 20.
Bare footed street urchins in 1930s Liverpool;
Sir Ronald Ross ; Health pioneer Dr William Duncan Kitty Wilkinson
VOTE 04' PIONEER: Nobel prize winner
Sir Ronald RossFIRST BRITON:
Sir Ronald Ross, whose pioneering work won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine; and, left, a mosquito biting a hand; PRIZE: Janet Hemingway with Sir Ronald's Nobel medals
The breakthrough comes in the centenary year since the Liverpool School's first lecturer,
Sir Ronald Ross, discovered it was the mosquito which carried malaria.
The breakthrough comes in the centenary year since the Liverpool school's first lecturer
Sir Ronald Ross discovered it was the mosquito which carried malaria.
One of its first lecturers,
Sir Ronald Ross, became the first British winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovering malaria is carried by mosquitoes.
l Its first professor of tropical medicine,
Sir Ronald Ross, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902, for discovering that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes.
LAUREATES:
Sir Ronald Ross, main picture, discovered the cause of Malaria.
But now 99 years on
Sir Ronald Ross, the first lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has been honoured again.