The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927
Awarded on: 1927-10-27
"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica"
Affiliations:
- Vienna University – Vienna, Austria
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Born: 1857-03-07 in Wels, Austria
Gender: male
Field: Austrian physician and nobelist (1857–1940)
Biography
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica".