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Ronald Ross: Malariologist and Polymath : A Biography
Author(s): Edwin R. Nye (Author), Mary E. Gibson (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 1997
- Language: English
- Print length: 316 pages
- ISBN-10: 0312162960
- ISBN-13: 9780312162962
Book Description
Ross (1857-1932) was the first Briton to win a Nobel Prize when he was so honored in 1902 for proving that mosquitoes carry malaria and the method by which they transmit it. He made important contributions to medicine and to epidemiology and its mathematics, wrote three novels and many poems, counted among his friends Arthur Conan Doyle and the politicians Ramsay MacDonald and Austen Chamberlin, and won the James Tain Black memorial prize for his autobiography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
