Prof. Dr. Otto Naegeli (born 9 July 1871 in

Ermatingen Ermatingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History The Stone Age Westerfeld and Büge shoreline settlements were discovered in 1861 and studied extensively 1981-83, with finds from the ...

; died 11 March 1938), was a Swiss hematologist. He was the brother of

Oskar Naegeli Oskar Naegeli (25 January 1885 in Ermatingen – 16 November 1959 in Fribourg), was a Swiss chess player and dermatologist. He represented Switzerland at the Chess Olympiads in 1927, 1928, 1931 and 1935,Földeák, Árpád: Schach-Olympiaden, Ve ...

. He is best known for refining the classification of

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...

by dividing them into myelogenous and lymphocytic classes. He also made the observation that many individuals are infected with tuberculosis and do not develop the disease, which he attributed to differences in individual immune systems. While initially controversial, this was later demonstrated by others. Every two years the

Otto Naegeli Prize The Otto-Naegeli-Preis is a Swiss award for medical research that is awarded every two years. It is one of the most prestigious Swiss medical awards and is given with an award sum of 200,000 Swiss Francs. It was established in 1960 and is named a ...

for the promotion of medical research is awarded to a scientist working in Switzerland who has made outstanding contributions to biomedical and/or clinical research and is likely to continue doing so. The prize is awarded by the Zurich based Bonizzi Theler Foundation and is named in honor of Otto Naegeli.

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Otto Naegeli Prize web site
Swiss hematologists 1871 births 1938 deaths {{Switzerland-med-bio-stub