Acceptance letter

ID-nummer

2014.006.003

Titel

Acceptance letter

Beskrivning

Hösten 1922 fick den 18-årige Werner Forssmann besked om att han antagits till läkarutbildningen vid Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (numera Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Antagningsbeviset är skrivet på latin och undertecknat av universitetets rektor Walter Nernst, Nobelpristagare i kemi 1920.

Werner Forssmann skulle många år senare, 1956, tilldelas Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin för sina pionjärinsatser inom hjärtmedicin.

Antagningsbeviset donerades till Nobelprismuseet av Werner Forssmanns efterlevande 2014.

Pristagare

Werner Forssmann

Walther Nernst

anteckningar

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.