Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940)

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Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian psychiatrist who won the Nobel Prize for developing a controversial treatment for a severe mental illness by deliberately infecting patients with malaria to trigger fever. His work in the late 1800s and early 1900s marked an important moment in psychiatric medicine, though his methods would not be considered ethical by modern standards.

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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x
APACHE II
· 1985 · cited 13,181x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,810x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,740x
Analysis of nitrate, nitrite, and [15N]nitrate in biological fluids
· 1982 · cited 9,786x

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Julius Wagner-Jauregg ( German: [ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈvaːɡnɐ ˈjaʊʁɛk]; 7 March 1857 – 27 September 1940) was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica".

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