FIGHT WITH DISEASE
A LEADER HONOURED HARBEN GOLD MEDAL British Wireless—Press Assn.—-Copyright RUGBY, Wednesday. The Council of the Royal Institute of Public health has decided to award the Harben Gold Medal for 1928 to Sir Ronald Ross, director-in-chief of the Ross Institute for Tropical Diseases, in recognition of his eminent services to public health.- —A. and N.Z. Sir Ronald Ross was born in 1857 and educated at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. In 1881 he entered the Indian Medical Service and took up the study of malaria. In 1897 he discovered the life history of malaria parasites in mosquitoes, and in 1899 he was leader of the expedition to West Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1902. Throughout the Great War he had the sole control in connection with malaria problems. He was knighted (K.C.8.) in 1911, made K.C.M.G. in 1918, and holds many honorary degrees and other distinctions, British and foreign. On July 29 last he was awarded the gold medal of the African Society. Sir Ronald is a literary man as well as a scientist. He is director-in-chief of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Putney Heath.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 16
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