Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1905
Number:92 - 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:The founder of modern bacteriology. Discoverer of the bacillus of tuberculosis and the comma bacillus.
 
Nominator:
Name:Wilhelm Roux
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1850
Year, Death:1924
Profession:prof
University:Halle University
City:Halle
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".