Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Year: | 1921 |
Number: | 86 - 11 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Sir Charles S Sherrington |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1857 |
Year, Death: | 1952 |
Profession: | prof physiology |
University: | University of Oxford |
City: | Oxford |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 | |
Motivation: | Work on reflexes, investigation on decerebration and decapitation, especially the reciprocal innervation. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | August S Krogh |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1874 |
Year, Death: | 1949 |
Profession: | NP med 1920 |
University: | University of Copenhagen |
City: | Copenhagen |
Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
Comments: | Nomination was made jointly in the same letter by the following professors: E. Overton, prof pharmacology, L. Broman, prof anatomy, K. Petrén, prof medicine, E. Sjövall, prof pathology and forensic medicine, T. Thunberg, prof physiology, in Lund, SE; G. Bergmark, prof pediatrics and practical medicine, G. Göthlin, prof physiology, R. Bárány, NP med 1914, in Uppsala, SE; A. Wimmer, prof psychiatry, J.C. Bock, prof pharmacology, V. Henriques, prof physiology, A. Krogh, NP med 1920, T. Madsen, head Danish State Serum Institute, L.S. Fredricia, prof hygiene, in Copenhagen, DK. |
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