| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1946 |
| Number: | 63 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Oswald Theodore Avery |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1877 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | dept head |
| 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: | Michael J Heidelberger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1991 |
| Profession: | Professor of biochemistry |
| Department: | College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| University: | Columbia University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | Importance of capsular polysaccharides of the pneumococcus, isolation of the specific
nucleo-protein of the pneumococcus. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Otto Loewi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1961 |
| Profession: | M.D, Nobel Laureate med 1936 |
| University: | New York University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 |
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