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Ronald Ross

1857 - 1932

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Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease. Ross was a polymath, writing a number of poems, publishing several novels, and composing songs. He was also an amateur artist and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Ross is the 50th most popular physician (up from 108th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from India (up from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Physician.

Ronald Ross is most famous for his discovery of the malaria parasite in 1897.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ronald Ross ranks 50 out of 726. Before him are Rita Levi-Montalcini, Claude Bernard, Elias Lönnrot, Peter Damian, Polycarp, and Otto Fritz Meyerhof. After him are Alexis Carrel, Emil von Behring, Joseph Murray, Peter C. Doherty, Gabor Maté, and Emil Kraepelin.

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Among people born in 1857, Ronald Ross ranks 14. Before him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Joseph Conrad, Henrik Pontoppidan, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfonso XII of Spain, and William Howard Taft. After him are Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alfred Binet, Theo van Gogh, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg. Among people deceased in 1932, Ronald Ross ranks 7. Before him are Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Wilhelm Ostwald, Margaret Brown, Sophia of Prussia, Eduard Bernstein, and Aristide Briand. After him are Giuseppe Peano, Manuel II of Portugal, King C. Gillette, Paul Doumer, Augusta, Lady Gregory, and Gustav Meyrink.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ronald Ross ranks 59 out of 1,861. Before him are Sariputta (-568), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), Kabir (1440), Ajatashatru (-500), Salman Rushdie (1947), and Alauddin Khalji (1266). After him are C. V. Raman (1888), P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Salman Khan (1965), Iskander Mirza (1899), Ram Narayan (1927), and Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886).

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Among PHYSICIANS In India

Among physicians born in India, Ronald Ross ranks 1. After him are Sushruta (-620), Dean Mahomed (1759), Soumya Swaminathan (1959), Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Devi Shetty (1953), Kamal Ranadive (1917), Indira Nath (1938), Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Siddhartha Mukherjee (1970), and Suniti Solomon (1938).

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