Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1910
Number:131 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Ludimar Hermann
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiology
City:Königsberg (now Kaliningrad)
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Jacques Loeb
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of California
City:Berkeley
State:CA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Eduard F Pflüger
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1829
Year, Death:1910
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Bonn
City:Bonn
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Motivation:Hermann: Work on electrical currents in muscles and nerves. Loeb: Second choice after Hermann and Pflüger, with more recent work in the same area (see comment). Pflüger: Work on electro tonus and the metabolism, especially glycogen.
 
Nominator:
Name:I. Rich. Ewald
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Strasbourg
City:Strasbourg
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Comments: Motivation for Loeb: "dass die Arbeiten Loebs sich den Arbeiten Pflügers und Hermanns gegenüber verhält, wie ein Check, der erst in Zukunft zahlbar ist, gegenüber dem sicheren Werte baren Goldes".
 

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