| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 49 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Joseph Erlanger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1874 |
| Year, Death: | 1965 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | Washington |
| City: | Saint Louis |
| State: | MO |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Herbert S Gasser |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1963 |
| Profession: | head |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 |
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| Motivation: | Studies on action potentials in the nervous system, especially with the aid of
a cathode ray oscillograph. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Pierre Rijlant |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | Brussels |
| City: | Brussels |
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) |
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