Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1903
Number:74 - 0
 
Nominee:
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
 
Motivation:Therapeutic use of concentrated light (phototherapy).
 
Nominator:
Name:Jannik P Bjerrum
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1851
Year, Death:1920
Profession:prof ophthalmology
University:University of Copenhagen
City:Copenhagen
Country:DENMARK (DK)
 
Comments: This nomination was sent in 1903. Apart from references to a few new publications, an identical letter was sent in 1902 (see entry 1903:1).