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.
