Ramón y Cajal, thus excluding Camillo Golgi. This was the same view held by in his report for the Nobel Committee. On the contrary, the evaluation by Carl Sundberg favoured Golgi over Cajal. Before the final decision, the written opinion of , who shared Holmgren's views was also taken into account. In the end, Cajal and Golgi were jointly awarded, being the first time this Prize was shared between two laureates. Retzius himself was also a Nobel Prize nominee himself 23 times, in 11 different years from 1901 to 1916. Curiously, he was nominated by Cajal before 1906 and by Golgi after that year. Death He died in 1919 in Stockholm. He was survived by his wife. His seat at the Swedish Academy was taken by Adolf Noreen that same year. Botanical Reference Notes References External links 1842 births 1919 deaths Physicians from Stockholm People connected to Lund University Swedish scientists Uppsala University alumni Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute Members of the Swedish Academy Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences Members of the French Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala