Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross KCB KCMG FRS FRCS (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.

Quotes

• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At his command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save,
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  • "In Exile", pt. 7 (21 August 1897), Philosophies (London: J. Murray, 1910)
  • Cf. 1 Corinthians 15:55, and Alexander Pope, "The Dying Christian to His Soul" (1712)