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

Year: 1946
Number: 42-0
   
Nominee 1:  
Name: Hans A Krebs
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1900
Year, death: 1981
Profession/Category: head of dept of Biochemistry, lecturer in pharmacology
University: Sheffield
City: Sheffield
Country: GB (UNITED KINGDOM)
Received prize: med 1953 »
   
Nominee 2:  
Name: John H Northrop
Gender: M
Year, birth: 1891
Year, death: 1987
Profession/Category: dept head
University: The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
City: Princeton
Country: US (UNITED STATES)
Received prize: che 1946 »
   
Nominee 3:  
Name: Wendell M Stanley
Gender: F
Year, birth: 1904
Year, death: 1971
Profession/Category: dr
University: The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
City: Princeton
Country: US (UNITED STATES)
Received prize: che 1946 »
   
Motivation: Krebs: Discovery of the mechanism of urea formation in mammals, oxidative decomposition of d-amino acids and carbohydrates.
Northrop: Crystallization of enzymes (Trypsin, Pepsin).
Stanley: Crystallization of viruses.
   
Nominator:
  
Name: Otto F Meyerhof
Gender: M
Profession/Category: prof biochemistry, Nobel Laureate med 1922
University: Pennsylvania
City: Philadelphia
Country: US (UNITED STATES)
State: PA
   
Evaluation: Yes
   
Evaluator 1:  
Name: Einar Hammarsten
Gender: M
Type:
Nominee 1: Full
Nominee 2: Full
   
Evaluator 2:  
Name: T Caspersson
Gender: M
Type:
Nominee 3: Full
   
Evaluator 3:  
Name: Folke Henschen
Gender: M
Type:
Nominee 3: Full
   
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