Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1903
Number:45 - 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:Older work in bacteriology; work in combatting tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria. Tuberculin TR against tuberculosis of the eye; work on wound infections, and etiology of anthrax. .
 
Nominator:
Name:A von Hippel
Gender:M
Profession:prof ophthalmology
University:University of Göttingen
City:Göttingen
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: A supplement to the evaluation of R. Koch by Carl Sundberg was made by Ernst Almquist. University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut".