Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1904
Number:42 - 0
 
Nominee:
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
 
Motivation:Over and above Koch´s general importance to science, serum therapy probably would not have been discovered if not for Koch´s work on tuberculin. Tuberculin itself is still one of the major weapons agianst tuberculosis.
 
Nominator:
Name:P von Baumgarten
Gender:M
Profession:prof general pathology and pathological anatomy
University:University of Tübingen
City:Tübingen
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut".