title: Remembering Charles B. Huggins' Nobel Prize for Hormonal Treatment of Prostatic Cancer at its 50th Anniversary.
abstract: Charles B. Huggins received the Nobel Prize in 1966. Based on archival sources from the Nobel archive we have found that nominators emphasised the practical therapeutic applications of his discoveries that were showing 25 yr after his key publications.
authors.affiliation: Department of History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: nils.hansson@hhu.de.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hansson
authors.affiliation: Department of History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Friedrich
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moll
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schultheiss
authors.affiliation: Department of History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krischel
mesh_terms: D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal / Q000266:history* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009613:Nobel Prize; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal