Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross (born 1857 in Almora, India) was a British physician who discovered how malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, earning the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this breakthrough. A polymath serving 25 years in the Indian Medical Service, he later directed the Ross Institute for Tropical Diseases and authored notable works including novels like The Revels of Orsera, poetry collections such as Selected Poems (1928), and his autobiography Memoirs (1923).