Julius Wagner-Jauregg 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". The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927, announced October 27, 1927. Julius Wagner-Jauregg, “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica”. Julius Wagner-Jauregg: born 1857, Wels, Austria. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).