Memorializes Dorothea Mary Ross (1923-2019). Dorothea's groundbreaking research career began when she arrived at Stanford University as a graduate student with her younger sister Sheila Ross. Along with Albert Bandura, she co-authored multiple studies in the early 1960s demonstrating the transmission of aggression through observational learning. Dorothea's academic and teaching appointments with Stanford Medical School and University of California-San Francisco Medical Schools brought her into frequent contact with physicians, psychologists, teachers, children, and their common issues. Dorothea received the Society for Pediatric Psychology (SPP) Distinguished Contributions Award in 1979 for exemplifying "the pediatric psychologist as a researcher and a scholar." The award was later renamed the Wright Ross Salk Award for Distinguished Service. Michael Roberts, the 2016 SPP award recipient, described Ross as one of the founding visionaries. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).