| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 56 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Harvey W Cushing |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1869 |
| Year, Death: | 1939 |
| Profession: | prof emer neurology |
| University: | Yale University |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Motivation: | Work on the surgery, physiology (hypophysis) and patholgy (tumours) of the central nervous system. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | J Dereux |
| Profession: | prof experimental medicine |
| University: | Lille |
| City: | Lille |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |