Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1909
Number:110 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Friedrich W Löffler
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1852
Year, Death:1915
Profession:prof hygiene
City:Greifswald
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Motivation:The discovery of the diphtheria bacillus and its toxin.
 
Nominator:
Name:G Gaffky
Gender:M
Profession:prof
University:Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut".
 

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