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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ronald Ross
Ross was a pioneer in developing mathematical models for the study of epidemiology.
SIR RONALD ROSS for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful resesarch on this disease and methods of combating it.
Ronald Ross; Hilda P. Hudson, "An Application of the Theory of Probabilities to the Study of a priori Pathometry.
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 Malaria
Sir Ronald Ross was born in India - at the hill station of Almora - on 13 May 1857 to a captain in the Bengal Army and his wife.
Ross dissected it and found nothing out of the ordinary but the Hospital Assistant rushed in to the laboratory to tell Ross that the unfamiliar larvae brought in the previous day had hatched into similar mosquitoes.
Ross took ten days' leave to write a paper, 'On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood', and was cautious enough to have his work verified by a colleague, Surgeon-Major John Smyth.
www.wellcome.ac.uk /en/malaria/TheMosquito/mrross1.html   (1239 words)

  
 Ronald Ross
Ronald Ross was born in India in 1857 at Almora.
Ross diagnosed her as suffering from malaria, which was unusual, as it was only found in hot tropical countries such as South America and India.
Ross died on 16 September 1932 at the Ross Institute after a long illness and was buried next to his wife at Putney Vale Cemetary.
www.zephyrus.co.uk /ronaldross.html   (1493 words)

  
 Tribuneindia... The fact File
Ronald’s father was an officer in the Indian British Army.
Ronald was born to them on May 13, 1857, at Almora in the Himalayan mountains, three days after the first War of Independence broke out.
Ross was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1902.
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 Personal Histories WW1: Ronald Campbell Ross
Ronald was a relatively short man - only 165cm (5ft 5in) tall - with blue eyes and a fair complexion His trade is variously described as flsmith, toolsmith and striker.
Ronald Campbell Ross, 60, was found dead early today in a burning sleepout at the home of his brother Thomas Ross, Ballarat Road, Braybrook.
Ronald, it seems, was an ordinary chap, content to remain an ordinary chap, with little ambition to rise in the world, who enjoyed the company of his mates, but was equally content to wander alone in whatever strange land he might find himself.
www.lighthorse.org.au /Pershist/ross.htm   (1513 words)

  
 History: Ross and the Discovery that Mosquitoes Transmit Malaria Parasites | CDC Malaria
Sir Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India in 1857 to Sir C.C.G. Ross, a General in the Indian Army and his wife Matilda.
Ross, Mahomed Bux and laboratory assistants at the laboratory in Calcutta where the life history of the malaria parasite in birds was fully worked out in 1898.
In 1926 the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases was opened on Putney Heath, London by the Prince of Wales as a memorial to and in recognition of Ross' work.
www.cdc.gov /malaria/history/ross.htm   (1463 words)

  
 University of Liverpool
Ross possessed a firm conviction that sanitary reform as a means of controlling mosquito populations was fundamental to preventing the spread of malaria.
Ross saw himself as having been bypassed in favour of Rubert Boyce for the Deanship of the School, while the School's precarious finances meant that his lectureship was not to be made permanent for a number of years.
Ronald Ross died on 16 September 1932 and is remembered for his fundamental and vital contribution to our understanding of malaria.
sca.lib.liv.ac.uk /collections/colldescs/lstm/ross.htm   (507 words)

  
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Ross collected and identified various kinds of mosquitoes, dissected their guts and in August 1897 found his quarry in Anopheles mosquito that had just fed on a malaria patient.
Ronald Ross received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his monumental work.Ronald Ross died in London on 16 September 1932 at the age of seventy five.
Ross apparently was ignorant of King’s work until 1899; and in fact he met continual problems because of a shortage of scientific literature in India, above all in connection with identifying and classifying mosquitoes.
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 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Ronald Ross was born in India in 1857.
Ross began his study of malaria in 1892 and between 1897 and 1898 he verified the causal link between the life cycle of the mosquito and malaria.
Ross left Liverpool for London and private practice in 1912 and in 1925 he witnessed the opening of the Ross Institute as a research establishment for the study of tropical diseases.
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 Keck School of Medicine of USC
Dr. Ross is a cancer epidemiologist whose research activities involve primarily identifying causes of cancer and developing strategies for preventing cancer.
Ross RK, Yuan J-M, Yu MC, Wogan GN, Qian G-S, Tu J-T, Groopman JD, Gao YT, Henderson BE.
Qian G-S, Ross RK, Yu MC, Yuan J-M, Gao Y-T, Henderson BE, Wogan GN, Groopman JD.
www.usc.edu /schools/medicine/util/directories/faculty/profile.php?PersonIs_ID=983   (959 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Texas Tech's Ross aims to find more joy in 'Pit'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ronald Ross looks to remain spotless at 'The Pit.' The senior guard is averaging 26 points per game in the NCAA Tournament.
Ross, a 6-2 senior guard for Texas Tech who's about as hot as any player in the Sweet 16, hopes for a triumphant homecoming tonight when his No. 6-seeded Red Raiders (22-10) face seventh-seeded West Virginia (23-10) in the semifinals of the Albuquerque Regional.
Ross was quickly falling through the recruiting cracks when Pat Knight, the son and assistant coach to Texas Tech's Bob Knight, saw Ross at a high school all-star game and recommended him to a couple of schools.
www.usatoday.com /sports/college/mensbasketball/tourney05/2005-03-23-texas-tech-ross-pit_x.htm   (838 words)

  
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Sir Ronald Ross was born a few days after the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.
Despite young Ronald's artistic inclinations, his father insisted on his studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and, after a protracted career as a reluctant medical student and a brief one as a ship's surgeon, he completed his qualifications in 1881 and joined the Madras branch of the Indian Medical Service (IMS).
Kala azar defeated Ross but he managed to trace the means of infection of avian malaria before resigning from the IMS in 1899 and joining the infant Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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 Ronald Ross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles, and laid the foundation for combating the disease.
He demonstrated that malaria is transmitted from infected birds to healthy ones by the bite of a mosquito, a finding that suggested the disease's mode of transmission to humans.
Ross returned to England in 1899 and joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and later the University of Liverpool.
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 Texas Tech walk-on is walking off to acclaim | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Ross knew people would doubt his decision, but he didn't care.
Ross, 22, is a tireless worker who has been a perfect fit in Knight's motion offense.
Ross, who is averaging 17.6 points and 5.5 rebounds, is shooting 52.7 percent from the field and 44.4 percent from three-point range.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050322/news_1s22ncaa.html   (870 words)

  
 District of Columbia Sports and Entertainment Commission Ronald R. Ross Confirmation, PR 14-17
Ronald R Ross is a Partner residing in the Washington, D.C. office of Troutman Sanders LLP.
Ross was an attorney with Mission Energy Company (now, Edison Mission Energy), where he concentrated on project finance, project development and asset management, principally by providing legal counsel to a variety of affiliated partnerships and special purpose subsidiaries established for the acquisition and/or development, financing and maintenance of independent power projects.
Ross was born in Washington, D.C. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cons laude, with Distinction, from Yale College in 1982 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1985.
www.dcwatch.com /archives/council14/14-17.htm   (568 words)

  
 Chapter 6-5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ross' father, Campbell Claye Ross, a major in the Indian army, was as authentic-looking a soldier as Queen Victoria could have hoped for.
Ross grabbed four of them, expressed their ingested blood on a glass slide, and peered at it with his microscope.
Ecstatic with joy, Ross wrote, "Those circles in the wall of the stomach of the mosquito--those circles with their dots of fl pigment, they can't be anything else than the malarial parasite, growing there...." On August 21 he dissected and examined the last brown mosquito, and again saw the pigment-filled circles.
stevenlehrer.com /explorers/chapter_6-5.htm   (8743 words)

  
 RedRaiders.com - Basketball - Tech makes OU see red 03/13/05
Ross and fellow guard Jay Jackson took over in the second half of a men's Big 12 Conference Tournament semifinal, leading the Red Raiders past top-seeded and No. 17 Oklahoma 69-63 and into a conference tournament championship game for the first time since 1996.
Ross wound up with 28 points, Jackson had 22, and together they accounted for 35 of the 43 points that Tech (20-9) scored in the second half.
On Friday, Ross and Jackson took care of the ball in the second half against Iowa State's zone traps, and Jackson scored 11 of his 20 points in the last 5:58 of a 64-56 victory.
www.redraiders.com /stories/031305/mbb_031305301.shtml   (926 words)

  
 Dean Ronald D. Ross/Music Theory/LSU
Ross was appointed Dean of the LSU School of Music on July 1, 1994.
Ross holds the Ph.D. degree in music history and theory from the University of Cincinnati, the M.M. degree in theory from Indiana University, and the B. degree in music education from Marshall University (WV).
Ross has been active as a conductor of choral music in church, university, and community settings throughout his career.
www.music.lsu.edu /FACULTY/ross.html   (229 words)

  
 SR.com: Nobody wanted him
So Ross ended up walking on at Texas Tech, Gonzaga's opponent this morning in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, and making an implausible climb from role player to starter to captain to All-Big 12 Conference first-team.
Ross jumped at Knight's invitation to walk-on and he roomed with current Zag and ex-Red Raider Nathan Doudney, who is sidelined with a knee injury.
Ross doesn't like to dwell on his unlikely journey because he feels like there's more left to achieve.
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 Archives: Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ronald Ross and his wife Helen hope their gift encourages others to support The Cleveland Clinic.
Ross, his wife Helen, and their family are showing their gratitude by giving the Clinic a $2.5 million thank-you card.
Ronald Ross is director emeritus of the department of radiology at Hillcrest Hospital, which is part of The Clinic health system, and he serves on the Clinic's board of trustees.
www.clevelandjewishnews.com /articles/2004/12/23/news/local/card1224.txt   (460 words)

  
 Ross, Sir Ronald on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ROSS, SIR RONALD [Ross, Sir Ronald] 1857-1932, English physician, b.
In 1898 he demonstrated the malarial parasite (Plasmodium) in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito; in W Africa he discovered the mosquito that transmits African fever.
'Aggressive, witty and unrelenting': Brigid Brophy and Ronald Firbank.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Fisher Sir Ronald
Fisher, Sir Ronald (1890-1962), British mathematician, whose statistical theories made scientific experimentation far more precise.
Ross, Sir Ronald (1857-1932), British doctor, entomologist, and Nobel laureate, noted for linking malaria to mosquitoes.
Woodward, Sir Clive Ronald (1956-), England rugby union player and coach, who famously coached the England side to World Cup victory in 2003.
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 St. Louis Post-Dispatch: RONALD ROSS, 66; RETIRED CPI CORP. EXECUTIVE, CIVIC LEADER@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ronald Ross, an executive in St. Louis for many years, died Saturday (March 5, 1994) of cancer at St. Louis University Hospital.
Ross, of Chesterfield, received a transplanted heart in 1986, a year after suffering a heart attack.
Ross was executive vice president of CPI Corp. when he retired in 1985.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:6595852&refid=holomed_1   (197 words)

  
 The Bully Trio Strikes
Ross and Ronald grabbed him and flushed him, again.
Ronald laughed hilariously as the startled Ross rubbed his head.
Reggie was in detention, and Ronald and Ross left Daniel alone.
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 Two of a kind | Arizona Daily Star ®
The irony in Ross landing at Tech was how hard the coaching staff worked to get him a scholarship at other schools.
Now, Ross leads the team in scoring at 18.6 points per game and is coming off a 28-point performance against UCLA in the first round.
Last week after Ross was named first-team all-Big 12, Pat Knight sent a newspaper clipping to one of the junior-college coaches who passed on Ross, a friend of the program.
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 WTAP | Ross, Ronald A.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ronald A. Ross, 59, of Parkersburg died July 5, 2005 at his residence.
He was born December 20, 1945 in Parkersburg a son of the late Robert Allen and Tessie Barbara Lamm Ross.He served in the US Marine Corps, was formerly employed with the US Postal Service and retired in March of this year as manager and member of the American Legion Post #15.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by four brothers and sisters Patti, Darrell and Don Ross and Barbara Grady.
www.wtap.com /obituaries/1664952.html   (98 words)

  
 Player Bio: Ronald Ross :: Men's Basketball
Ronald completed his sophomore season with significant improvement over his freshman season...
HIGH SCHOOL: Ronald played on the varsity basketball team for three years for Coach Russ Gilmore as his Eagles won three Class 5A State Championships in New Mexico.
PERSONAL: Ronald Lovell Ross, Jr., was born on February 11, 1983, in Hobbs, New Mexico...a walk-on as a freshman for the Red Raiders...enjoys writing poetry, listening to music, and playing basketball...his advice to others, "Trust God, stay in school, and set high goals."
texastech.cstv.com /sports/m-baskbl/mtt/ross_ronald00.html   (95 words)

  
 Ronald Ross --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The British bacteriologist Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1902 for his discovery of the parasite that causes malaria.
In 1897 he had found that the parasite was carried in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito.
In 1898 Dr. Ronald Ross, an English army surgeon, had discovered that malaria is transmitted by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito (see Ross, Ronald).
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276796   (758 words)

  
 Our Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ronald M. Beberniss, M.D. An emergency care physician since 1972, Dr. Beberniss graduated from Baylor College of Medicine and did his internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Houston.
Ronald C. Ross, M.D. A graduate of Bellaire High School, Dr. Ross is the other owner of Suburban Physicians Center.
Ross attended Rice University, where he received his BS in Biology.
www.suburbanphysicians.com /html/our_staff.html   (736 words)

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