Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1903
Number:30 - 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:No medical researcher more worthy of the Prize than Koch, who is still actively conducting research. Work on bacteriology in the 1880s, tuberculin, discovery of the spirillum of cholera, work on malaria.
 
Nominator:
Name:V Imerwol
Profession:prof anatomy
City:Jassy
Country:ROMANIA (RO)
 
Comments: A supplement to the evaluation of R. Koch by Carl Sundberg was made by Ernst Almquist. University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut".