Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1902
Number:66 - 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:Discoveries of great importance to medicine and to mankind.
 
Nominator:
Name:Vincenzo de Giaxa
Gender:M
Profession:prof hygiene
University:Naples
City:Naples
Country:ITALY (IT)
 
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".