Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Year: | 1949 |
Number: | 66 - 0 |
Nominee 1: |
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Name: | Oswald Theodore Avery |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1877 |
Year, Death: | 1955 |
Profession: | former dept head |
University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
City: | New York |
State: | NY |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Nominee 2: |
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Name: | Edwin J Cohn |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1892 |
Year, Death: | 1953 |
Profession: | prof biological chemistry |
University: | Harvard Medical School |
City: | Cambridge |
State: | MA |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Motivation: | O. Avery: Demonstrated that the capsule of pneumococcus is essential for its virulence. Work on the tramsmutation of types of pneumococci. E. Cohn: Fractionation of plasma proteins, and their use. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Paul Reznikoff |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | prof medicine |
City: | New York |
State: | NY |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Comments: | Also nominated by P. Reznikoff were R. Dubos and S. Waksman (see entry nr 66-1). |
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