Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927
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Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Prize share: 1/1
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927 was awarded to Julius Wagner-Jauregg "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica"
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