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

Year:	1931
Number:	23-1
Nominee 1:
Name:	John J Abel
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1857
Profession/Category:	prof pharmacology
University:	Johns Hopkins
City:	Baltimore
Country:	US (UNITED STATES)
Nominee 2:
Name:	Bertram J Collip
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	prof biochemistry
University:	Montreal
City:	Montreal
Country:	CA (CANADA)
Nominee 3:
Name:	Otto Folin
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	prof biochemistry
University:	Harvard
City:	Cambridge
Country:	US (UNITED STATES)
Motivation:	Abel: Work on epinephrine and insulin. Collip: The preparation of the active hormone of the parathyroid gland and demonstration of its mode of action and uses. Folin: Work on the quantitative determination of substances in the blood and urine.
Nominator:
Name:	Arthur D Hirschfelder
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	prof pharmacology
University:	Minnesota
City:	Minneapolis
Country:	US (UNITED STATES)
State:	MN
Evaluation:	No