Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1900s
| Year
| Name
| Topics
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| 1901
| Emil Adolf von Behring
| "for his serum therapy to treat diphtheria"
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| 1902
| Ronald Ross
| "for research on malaria"
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| 1903
| Niels Ryberg Finsen
| "for his light treatment of lupus vulgaris "
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| 1904
| Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
| "for work on the physiology of the digestive system"
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| 1905Events January-April January 22 Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. January 26 The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier
| Robert KochHeinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( December 11, 1843 May 27, 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for the discovery of the tubercle bacillus ( 1882) and the cholera bacillus ( 1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded the No
| "for discovering the cause of tuberculosisTuberculosis is also called TB consumption (TB seemed to consume people from within with its symptoms of bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting), wasting disease White Plague (TB sufferers appeared markedly pale), phthisis (Greek for con"
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| 1906Events January 8 Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 January 31 Earthquake in Ecuador (8. 6 in Richter scale) February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos''. February 15 Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in t
| Camillo GolgiCamillo Golgi ( July 7, 1843 January 21, 1926) was an Italian physician. Golgi was born in Corteno, Italy. His father was a physician and district medical officer. Golgi studied medicine at University of Pavia, where he worked in the experimental patholog, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
| "for research on the nervous systemThe nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and processes input from the senses, and initiates actions. see Central Nervous System). In animals with brains, the nervous system also generates and"
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| 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis
| Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
| "for research into protozoa causing disease"
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| 1908
| Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
| "for study of the immune system"
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| 1909
| Emil Theodor Kocher
| "for work on the thyroid gland"
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