| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1916 | 
| Number: | 18 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Albert  Neisser | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1855 | 
| Year, Death: | 1916 | 
| Profession: | prof dermatology and syphilidology | 
| University: | University of Breslau (now Wrocław) | 
| City: | Breslau (Wrocław) | 
| Country: | POLAND (PL) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | August P von Wassermann | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1866 | 
| Year, Death: | 1925 | 
| Profession: | prof, director | 
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für experimentelle Therapie (now Max Planck Institute) | 
| City: | Berlin | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Motivation: | A. Neisser: Experimental and clinical work on the treatment of syphilis. 
A. von Wassermann: Work on serum diagnosis in syphilis. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Paul  Ehrlich | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1854 | 
| Year, Death: | 1915 | 
| Profession: | prof, Nobel Laureate med 1908 | 
| City: | Frankfurt am Main | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 | 
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