| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1920 | 
| Number: | 102 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | August P von Wassermann | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1866 | 
| Year, Death: | 1925 | 
| Profession: | prof, head | 
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für experimentelle Therapie (now Max Planck Institute) | 
| City: | Berlin | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Motivation: | Work on the binding of tetanus toxin to brain tissue, treatment of carcinoma and especially serum diagnosis in syphilis. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Emil  Kraepelin | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1856 | 
| Year, Death: | 1926 | 
| Profession: | prof psychiatry | 
| University: | University of Munich | 
| City: | Munich | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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