The Nomination Database for the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-1953

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Year	Nominator	Nominee(s)	Motivation
1905	Ross	Carter Finlay	Work on the etiology and prophylaxis of yellow fever.	Show »
1905	Ross	Finlay Carter	Work on the etiology and prophylaxis of yellow fever (see comment).	Show »
1906	Caton	Sherrington	Researches on the physiology of the nervous system, the physiology of spinal reflexes, reciprocal innervation and spinal conduction, and researches on the dosage of chloroform for the isolated mammalian heart.	Show »
1906	Paterson	Beard	The discovery of the existence in lower vertebrates of an independent nervous system which arises and is functional during earlier embryonic stages, the discovery of the true nature of the thymus gland, demonstration of the direct morphological continuity of the germ cells of vertebrate animals.	Show »
1912	Ross	Looss	Life-long studies on parasitology and discovery of the route of entry of Ankylostoma duodenale into the human body.	Show »
1914	Paterson	Hunter	Investigations in haemolysis, pernicious and septic anaemias and oral sepsis.	Show »
1922	Macdonald	Sherrington	Work on the functions of the central nervous system.	Show »
1932	Dible	Sherrington	Work on the mechanism of action of the central nervous system.	Show »
1932	Macdonald	Sherrington	Work on the central nervous system and central excitatory and inhibitory states.	Show »

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