Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927

“for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica”

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian psychiatrist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927 for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica. He was affiliated with Vienna University.