Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid. Wikipedia
Born: August 25, 1841, Bern, Switzerland
Died: July 27, 1917 (age 75 years), Bern, Switzerland
Award: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1909)
Parents: Jakob Alexander Kocher and Maria Kocher