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

Year: 1951
Number: 18-0
   
Nominee 1:  
Alfred Blalock
M
1964
prof surgery
Baltimore
US (UNITED STATES)
   
Nominee 2:  
Helen B Taussig
F
assoc prof pediatrics
Baltimore
US (UNITED STATES)
   
Nominee 3:  
Robert E Gross
M
prof pediatric surgery
Boston
US (UNITED STATES)
   
Motivation: Blalock: Surgical treatment of inborn cardiac disorders
Taussig: Inborn malformations of the heart
Gross: Surgical treatment of isthmus aortae
   
Nominator:
 
Niels Dungal
M
prof pathology
Reykjavik
IS (ICELAND)
   
Evaluation: Yes
   
Evaluator 1:  
John Hellström
M
Nominee 1: Full
Nominee 2: Full
Nominee 3: Full
   
Comment: Also nominated by Niels Dungal were: Clarence Crafoord and Gustav Nylin (see entry 18:1)
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