Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1901
Number:44 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Niels R Finsen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1860
Year, Death:1904
Profession:prof
University:Finsen Medical Light Institute
City:Copenhagen
Country:DENMARK (DK)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1903
 
Nominee 2:
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:N. Finsen: Therapeutic use of concentrated light (phototherapy). R. Koch: Work on malaria. Koch´s work will allow for the development of tropical regions.
 
Nominator:
Name: Coler
Profession:Army Medical Corps (Kgl. Preussischer Gerneralstabsarzt der Armee)
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".