Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1901
Number:49 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Santiago Ramon y Cajàl
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1852
Year, Death:1934
Profession:prof histology
University:Madrid
City:Madrid
Country:SPAIN (ES)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Albert von Kölliker
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1817
Year, Death:1905
Profession:prof anatomy
University:Würzburg
City:Würzburg
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Wilhelm His
Gender:M
Profession:prof anatomy
University:Leipzig University
City:Leipzig
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Motivation:S. Ramon y Cajàl: Work on the fine structure of the spinal column; pioneering work on the structure of the brain in the vision and motor regions. A. von Koelliker: One of the great names in anatomy; his work on the fine structure of the nervous system. W. His: Second choice. Work in embryology, especially on the neuroblast, and the structure of the protoplasm.
 
Nominator:
Name:Gustaf M Retzius
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1842
Year, Death:1919
Profession:former prof
University:Karolinska Institutet
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Comments: Evaluation included C. Golgi, and was corroborated by S. E. Henschen.