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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909

"for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland"
Emil Theodor Kocher
Emil Theodor Kocher
Switzerland
Berne University
Berne, Switzerland
b. 1841
d. 1917
 
 
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