Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1950
Number:11 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Manfred Sakel
Gender:M
Profession:dr
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Ladislas J von Meduna
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1896
Year, Death:1964
Profession:prof psychiatry
City:Chicago
State:IL
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Ugo Cerletti
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1877
Year, Death:1963
Profession:prof neuropsychiatry
City:Rome
Country:ITALY (IT)
 
Motivation:M.Sakel: Insulin treatment of schizophrenia and melancholy. L von Meduna: Work on shock treatment with cardizol. U.Cerletti: Electroconvulsive treatment of schizophrenia and the manic depressive psychoses.
 
Nominator:
Name:H J Urban
Profession:prof psychiatry and neurology
University:Universitätsklinik Innsbruck
City:Innsbruck
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: Also nominated by H.J.Urban was L.Bini (see entry nr 11-1)