| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1902 |
| Number: | 32 - 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: | Friedrich W Löffler |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1852 |
| Year, Death: | 1915 |
| Profession: | prof hygiene |
| University: | University of Greifswald |
| City: | Greifswald |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Lord Joseph Lister |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1827 |
| Year, Death: | 1912 |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Motivation: | First choice Koch, second choice Lister and Löffler.
F. Löffler: Work on the etiology of diphtheria, streptococcus infections, hog cholera, red typhus and hoof and mouth disease.
J. Lister: Antiseptic and aseptic wound treatment.
R. Koch: Discovery of the tubercle bacillus and of the spirillum of cholera. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Emil A von Behring |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1854 |
| Year, Death: | 1917 |
| Profession: | prof, Nobel Laureate med, 1901 |
| University: | University of Marburg |
| City: | Marburg |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
Evaluation was made jointly by Carl Sundberg and Ernst Almquist, and included R. Ross and B. Grassi as well as R. Koch.
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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