The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-1953

Year:	1902
Number:	22-0
Nominee 1:
Name:	Robert Koch
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1843
Year, death:	1910
Profession/Category:	prof
University:	Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten (Robert Koch Inst. for Infectious Diseases)
City:	Berlin
Country:	DE (GERMANY)
Received prize:	med 1905 »
Nominee 2:
Name:	R Virchow
Profession/Category:	prof pathological anatomy
City:	Berlin
Country:	DE (GERMANY)
Nominee 3:
Name:	Lord Joseph Lister
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1827
Year, death:	1912
City:	London
Country:	GB (UNITED KINGDOM)
Motivation:	R. Virchow: His importance to modern medicine. Work on leukemia, and in pathology. J. Lister: Antiseptic and aseptic wound treatment. R. Koch: Discovery of the tubercle bacillus and of the spirillum of cholera.
Nominator:
Name:	R von Jaksch
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	prof medicine
University:	k.k. deutschen Universität (German University)
City:	Prague
Country:	CZ (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Evaluation:	Yes
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Carl Sundberg
Gender:	M
Type:	Nominee 1: Full
Comment:	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".