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Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1909
Theodor Kocher received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland. The award recognizes how this contribution changed the direction of its field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.