Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1901
Number:78 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Sir Patrick Manson
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1844
Year, Death:1922
Profession:lecturer tropical disease
University:St Georges Hospital
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Sir Ronald Ross
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1857
Year, Death:1932
Profession:lecturer, former surgeon Major
University:University College Liverpool
City:Liverpool
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
University:School of Tropical Medicine
City:Liverpool
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902
 
Motivation:P. Manson: Proposed the idea that the malaria parasite has a life-cycle similar to Filaria. R. Ross: Experimental studies of the mosquito as bearer of malaria (see comment).
 
Nominator:
Name:W H Gaskell
Gender:M
University:University of Cambridge
City:Cambridge
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Comments: Evaluation was made jointly by Carl Sundberg, Ernst Almquist and Ragunda Hammarstrand, and included Ross, Manson, Laveran, Grassi, Bastianelli and Bignami.