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

Year:	1927
Number:	39-0
Nominee:
Name:	Albert Calmette
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	prof
University:	Institut Pasteur (Pasteur Institute)
City:	Paris
Country:	FR (FRANCE)
Motivation:	Discovery of a vaccine against tuberculosis (BCG), created the first tuberculosis dispensaries; the work "L´infection bacillaire et la tuberculose"- Paris, Librairie Masson, 1920.
Nominator:
Name:	D E Lavoreria
Profession/Category:	prof histology
University:	Lima
City:	Lima
Country:	PE (PERU)
Evaluation:	No