Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1909
Number:63 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Friedrich W Löffler
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1852
Year, Death:1915
Profession:prof hygiene
City:Greifswald
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Motivation:Numerous works on bacteriology, especially on the diphtheria and rots (see comment) bacilli.
 
Nominator:
Name: Lentz
Profession:dr
University:Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: German: Rotzbazillus. University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut".