| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1904 |
| Number: | 42 - 0 |
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Nominee:
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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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| Motivation: | Over and above Koch´s general importance to science, serum therapy probably would not have been discovered if not for Koch´s work on tuberculin. Tuberculin itself is still one of the major weapons agianst tuberculosis.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | P von Baumgarten |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof general pathology and pathological anatomy |
| University: | University of Tübingen |
| City: | Tübingen |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| 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". |
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