Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1902
Number:22 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Robert Koch
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1843
Year, Death:1910
Profession:prof
University:Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Rudolph Virchow
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1821
Year, Death:1902
Profession:prof pathological anatomy
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Lord Joseph Lister
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1827
Year, Death:1912
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:R. Virchow: His importance to modern medicine. Work on leukemia, and in pathology. J. Lister: Antiseptic and aseptic wound treatment. R. Koch: Discovery of the tubercle bacillus and of the spirillum of cholera.
 
Nominator:
Name:R von Jaksch
Gender:M
Profession:prof medicine
University:Institut der k.k. Deutschen Universität (German University)
City:Prague
Country:CZECH REPUBLIC (CZ)
 
Comments: Evaluation was made jointly by Carl Sundberg and Ernst Almquist, and included R. Ross and B. Grassi as well as R. Koch. University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut".