A researcher and physician who gained international fame: Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941) as Nobel Prize candidate

Palmen, Lotte, Eisenberg, Ulrike, Karenberg, Axel, Fangerau, Heiner and Hansson, Nils . A researcher and physician who gained international fame: Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941) as Nobel Prize candidate. Nervenarzt. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1433-0407

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DOI:10.1007/s00115-021-01184-z

Abstract

This paper discusses the 17 Nobel Prize nominations for the neurologist and neurosurgeon Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941). Drawing on files from the Stockholm Nobel Prize Archive, primary and secondary literature, it addresses the following questions: what were the reasons given by nominators for Foerster's nominations? What was the relationship between him and his nominators? Why was he ultimately not awarded the Nobel Prize? Most nominators of Foerster's highlighted as the main motive his Handbuch der Neurologie, which he had edited with Oswald Bumke. According to the nominators, this book together with Foerster's neurosurgical work had an enormous impact on contemporary neurology. Furthermore, his honorable character was underlined in the nomination letters; however, these reasons were not sufficient for the Nobel Committee: the members classified the handbook as not being original research. Despite this, Foerster's fame is reflected in the present, for example in the Otfrid Foerster Medal, which has been awarded to researchers by the German Society of Neurosurgery since 1953.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Palmen, Lotte	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Eisenberg, Ulrike	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Karenberg, Axel	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Fangerau, Heiner	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hansson, Nils	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED