Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1857 – 1940 · aged 83
Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940)
- Born
- 7 Mar 1857 · Wels
- Died
- 27 Sept 1940 · Vienna
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- 7 Mar 1857BornBorn in Wels
- 1927AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 27 Sept 1940DiedDied in Vienna
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1857 – 1940).
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
Biography
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Austrian German: [ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈvaːɡnɐ ˈjaʊrɛk]; 7 March 1857 – 27 September 1940) 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".
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