Science · 1857–1940

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

First psychiatrist to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Did you know?He is the only psychiatrist to receive a Nobel Prize for a specific therapeutic discovery, which involved using fevers to cure a disease.

Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Austrian German:; 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.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Age at death
83
Years since death
86

Born on the same day6

March 7 →
Alessandro Manzoni1785–1873

Alessandro Manzoni

LiteratureDied aged 88
View profile

Photo: Francesco Hayez · Public domain

Maurice Ravel1875–1937

Maurice Ravel

MusicDied aged 62
View profile

Photo: Unknown author Unknown author The image holder, the Bibliothèque nationale de France has not identified a photographer. · Public domain

Sanae Takaichib. 1961

Sanae Takaichi

PoliticsAge 65
View profile

Photo: Immediate source: MOFA/Japanese Embassy to South Africa, probable source: Cabinet Public Affairs Office · CC BY 4.0

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk1850–1937

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

PoliticsDied aged 87
View profile

Photo: Státní grafická škola v Praze / Karel Novák (1875–1950) · Public domain

Rachel Weiszb. 1970

Rachel Weisz

FilmAge 56
View profile

Photo: Harald Krichel · CC BY-SA 4.0

John Frederick William Herschel1792–1871

John Frederick William Herschel

ScienceDied aged 79
View profile

Photo: Julia Margaret Cameron · Public domain

Missing someone? Suggest them

Also Pisces4

All →

Birthday gift ideas

We may earn a small commission from purchases, at no extra cost to you.