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

Year: 1932
Number: 104-1
   
Nominee 1:  
Thomas H Morgan
M
1866
1945
prof biology
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
US (UNITED STATES)
med 1933 »
   
Nominee 2:  
Hermann J Muller
M
1890
1967
prof zoology
Texas
Austin
US (UNITED STATES)
med 1946 »
   
Motivation: Morgan: Work on genetics, genemutations, phenotypical divergencies, the demonstration of three coupling groups in the genes of Drosophila, "crossing over".
Muller: Work on genetics, "crossing over", lethal factors, the demonstration of a fourth coupling group in the genes of Drosophila, the effect of temperature changes and X-rays on the mutation rate.
   
Nominator:
 
Oskar Vogt
M
prof
Institut für Hirnforschung (Institute for Brain Research)
Berlin-Buch
DE (GERMANY)
   
Evaluation: Yes
   
Evaluator 1:  
Folke Henschen
M
Nominee 1: Full
Nominee 2: Full
   
Evaluator 2:  
John Runnström
M
Nominee 1: Full
Nominee 2: Full
   
Comment: Nominator´s University: From 1915, O.Vogt was active at the "Neurobiologisches Universitäts-Laboratoirum", In 1931 they moved to the "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung", and later to the "Institut für Hirnforschung und Allgemeine Biologie" (Institute for Brain Research and General Biology).
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