Acceptance letter
- ID-nummer
- 2014.006.003
- Title
- Acceptance letter
- Description
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In autumn 1922, the then 18-year-old Werner Forssmann was notified that he had been accepted as a medical student at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (now the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). The acceptance letter is in Latin and signed by the university chancellor, Walter Nernst, the Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry in 1920.
Many years later, in 1956, Werner Forssmann was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work in cardiology.
The acceptance letter was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Werner Forssmann's family in 2014. - annotates
- Werner Forssmann's Medical School Acceptance Letter, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (now Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) signed by Walther Nernst, October 12th 1922. This document was donated to the Nobel Museum in 2014 by the daughter of Werner Forssmann, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1956. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956 was awarded jointly to André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system". The interesting thing with this document is that it is addressed to a Nobel Laureate in Medicine to be and signed by the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1920, Walther Nernst who 1921-1922 was Rector (Chancellor) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin.
Part of Acceptance letter