Nomination archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1904
Number:38 - 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:Etiology of anthrax, wound infections and tuberculosis; prophylactic measures against cholera and their application to other diseases; work on malaria.
 
Nominator:
Name:C Garré
Profession:prof
City:Königsberg (now Kaliningrad)
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: University: Originally the "Königlich Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten" or "Institut für Infektions-Krankheiten", the name was in 1912 changed to "Das Robert Koch-Institut".