Magic lantern slide WW1, 1914-1918, World war one images. Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., LL.D(Aberdeen), M.D, D.Sc, F.R.C.S, D.P.H., L.S.A. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1902. Born in India in 1857, died 1932, he was the eldest of the 9 children of General Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross of Shandwick. Ronald was trained at St Bartholomew's . Whilst still working as a doctor, in 1882 he began his study of malaria, and in 1895 began his collaborating correspondence with fellow Scot, Sir Patrick Manson, who later founded the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (LSTMH). In August 1997 while in India, Ross made his famous discovery of the transmission of malaria parasites to man by anopheles mosquitoes.