| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1901 | 
| Number: | 31 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| 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 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Emil A von Behring | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1854 | 
| Year, Death: | 1917 | 
| Profession: | prof hygiene | 
| University: | University of Marburg | 
| City: | Marburg | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Paul  Ehrlich | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1854 | 
| Year, Death: | 1915 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für experimentelle Therapie (now Max Planck Institute) | 
| City: | Frankfurt am Main | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 | 
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| Motivation: | R. Koch: His entire career in bacteriology.
P. Ehrlich: Work on immunity, especially his work on the toxins ricin and abrin; work on diphtheria; studies of blood cells.
E. von Behring: Discovery of serum therapy against diphtheria. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Theodor  Langhans | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1839 | 
| Year, Death: | 1915 | 
| Profession: | prof pathological anatomy | 
| City: | Bern | 
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) | 
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| Comments: | A supplement to the evaluation was made by Carl Sundberg. Evaluation included E. Roux. 
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für experimentelle Therapie (now Max Planck Institute): Alternative name possibly Königliches Institut für experimentelle Therapie (Institute for experimental therapy).
            
University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten",
the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut". | 
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