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Nobel Prize

Denmark · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1903–1984Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1903

Niels Ryberg Finsen1903

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for treating disease, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation.

1926

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger1926

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on Spiroptera carcinoma.

1984

Niels Jerne1984

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for theories concerning the specificity and control of the immune system.

Names involved

Johannes Andreas Grib FibigerNiels JerneNiels Ryberg Finsen

Provenance

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