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

Year:	1939
Number:	40-0
Nominee:
Name:	Yandell Henderson
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	prof emer physiology
University:	Yale
City:	New Haven
Country:	US (UNITED STATES)
Motivation:	Work on administration of small amounts of carbon dioxide with the air or oxygen used for breathing when the respiratory mechanism is depressed.
Nominator:
Name:	Joseph Erlanger
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	prof physiology, Nobel Laureate med 1944
University:	Washington
City:	St Louis
Country:	US (UNITED STATES)
State:	MO
Evaluation:	No