| 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: | Th. Langhans |
| Gender: | M |
| 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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