| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1914 |
| Number: | 49 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Simon Flexner |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1863 |
| Year, Death: | 1946 |
| Profession: | prof pathology, director |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Theobald Smith |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1859 |
| Year, Death: | 1934 |
| Profession: | prof comparative pathology |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | Flexner: Work on the production of a curative serum for epidemic meningitis and the etiological agent of poliomyelitis and the methods of transmission of this disease.
Smith: Work on the role of the tick in the transmission of Texas fever in cattle and the differentiation of the human and bovine types of tubercle bacilli. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Richard M Pearce |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Philadelphia |
| State: | PA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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