Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1905
Number:80 - 0
 
Nominee:
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:Work on the etiology of anthrax, wound infections, tuberculosis, cholera, cattle plague, malaria and tropical diseases.
 
Nominator:
Name:W Uhthoff
Profession:prof
University:University of Breslau (now Wrocław)
City:Breslau (Wrocław)
Country:POLAND (PL)
 
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".