Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1940
Number:17 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Hans Berger
Gender:M
Profession:prof psychiatry
City:Jena
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Motivation:Development of the electroencephalograph.
 
Nominator:
Name:Walter B Cannon
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1871
Year, Death:1945
Profession:prof physiology
University:Harvard Medical School
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Comments: Also nominated, for other discoveries, were M. Sakel, H. Goldblatt and B.A. Houssay (see nrs 17-1, 2, & 3 respectively).