Julius Wagner-Jauregg is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Julius Wagner-Jauregg as Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940).
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was born at Wels in 1857. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at University of Vienna.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Vienna and University of Graz.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, psychiatry and neurology.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
Recognition followed: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1927) and Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh.
That the work was done from Austria matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg died in 1940, aged 83. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1927
- Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
- Held posts at University of Vienna and University of Graz
- Fields: medicine, psychiatry and neurology
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