| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1901 |
| Number: | 49 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Santiago Ramon y Cajàl |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1852 |
| Year, Death: | 1934 |
| Profession: | prof histology |
| University: | Madrid |
| City: | Madrid |
| Country: | SPAIN (ES) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Albert von Kölliker |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1817 |
| Year, Death: | 1905 |
| Profession: | prof anatomy |
| University: | Würzburg |
| City: | Würzburg |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Wilhelm His |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof anatomy |
| University: | Leipzig University |
| City: | Leipzig |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Motivation: | S. Ramon y Cajàl: Work on the fine structure of the spinal column; pioneering work on the structure of the brain in the vision and motor regions. A. von Koelliker: One of the great names in anatomy; his work on the fine structure of the nervous system. W. His: Second choice. Work in embryology, especially on the neuroblast, and the structure of the protoplasm. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Gustaf M Retzius |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1842 |
| Year, Death: | 1919 |
| Profession: | former prof |
| University: | Karolinska Institutet |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| Comments: | Evaluation included C. Golgi, and was corroborated by S. E. Henschen. |
