German Prize Research Articles

Franz Büchner's wartime hypoxia research and the Nobel Prize

Between 1901 and 1953, atotal of 5110 persons were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This time period spans both world wars and touches on the question of how the Nobel Committees dealt with German prize candidates. The nominations of the German pathologist Franz Büchner for the Nobel Prize will be used to examine the extent to which it played arole in the awarding of the prize if some of the research results to be honoured were obtained during the National Socialist era. The article also presents an overview of all pathologists from Germany who were nominated for the Nobel Prize during the first half of the 20th century. Data from the nomination archive in Stockholm as well as nomination letters and expert opinions of the Nobel Committee (Nobel Archive) were analysed. Franz Büchner's nomination is examined in more detail as an example, because the nominators justified their proposal with Büchner's publications traced here, that in part originated from the National Socialist era. Franz Büchner was nominated by three German professors in 1963. Both areas for which he was to be awarded concerned his research on the influence of oxygen deficiency on the function and development of the human organism. In the end, Büchner's achievements were deemed not worthy of the Nobel Prize. His role as amilitary researcher during National Socialism and the knowledge of hypoxia acquired during this period do not seem to have had anegative impact on the Nobel Prize evaluation.

Women in German Prize Winners (2019)

Women in German Prize Winners (2019)

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Women in German Prize Winners (2019)

Women in German Prize Winners (2018)

Women in German Prize Winners (2018)

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Women in German Prize Winners (2018)

Women in German Prize Winners (2017)

Women in German Prize Winners (2017)

Women in German Prize Winners (2016)

Women in German Prize Winners (2016)

Women in German Prize Winners (2015)

Women in German Prize Winners (2015)

Women in German Prize Winners (2014)

Women in German Prize Winners (2014)

Women in German Prize Winners (2010–2013)

Women in German Prize Winners (2010–2013)

Blaise Pascal Medal: H. B. Kagan / Le Bel Prize: G. Bertrand / Süe Prize: B. Chaudret / Franco-German Prize: M. Antonietti / Coordination Chemistry Prize: R. Poli

Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 50, Issue 13 p. 2883-2884 News Blaise Pascal Medal: H. B. Kagan / Le Bel Prize: G. Bertrand / Süe Prize: B. Chaudret / Franco–German Prize: M. Antonietti / Coordination Chemistry Prize: R. Poli First published: 24 February 2011 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201100336Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Volume50, Issue13March 21, 2011Pages 2883-2884 RelatedInformation

Position Finding in Captivity

In December 1940 some 500 captured allied seamen, including the author, were transferred from a German commerce raider to an ex-Norwegian tanker under the command of a German prize crew, with the original crew still aboard. The ship was in the Southern Indian Ocean—in about S. 32°, E. 70°—just cruising about aimlessly; apparently awaiting orders to proceed. The captured Chinese and Indian ratings were accommodated aft somewhere, the shipmasters and passengers were housed amidships; and the rest were forward.This vessel was very effective for the purpose to which it was being put as it was easy to position machine guns to cover all ways of approaching the midship house; in particular the fore part of the bridge was a solid wall right up from the foredeck to the high dodgers. Nothing could be seen of those on watch and no bells were struck, so that the officer prisoners were denied the sight of anything which might help them to guess what was happening, and any sound to give them an idea of the passage of ship's time.

The Development of German Prize Law

The Development of German Prize Law

The Development of German Prize Law

The Development of German Prize Law

American Prisoners of War Taken to Germany on German Prize Ship Yarrowdale

American Prisoners of War Taken to Germany on German Prize Ship <i>Yarrowdale</i>

The Appam Case

The arrival of the fine British passenger vessel Appam at Newport News on January 31, 1916, in charge of a German prize crew and with about four hundred and fifty British subjects, passengers and sailors, including the Governor of Sierra Leone and some other prominent officials, not only created a picturesque situation, but raised some very important problems of international law.

Part XXI. Internment of the German Prize Ship Farn

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