| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 67 - 3 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Edward Mellanby |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1884 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | prof, secretary |
| University: | Medical Research Council |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Lady May Mellanby |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1882 |
| Year, Death: | 1978 |
| Profession: | MD |
| University: | University of London |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Motivation: | Work on the relation of dietary deficiencies to human diseases. (Sir E. Mellanby: Rickets and the nervous conditions produced by lack of vitamin A. Lady M. Mellanby: Dental structure and dental disease.) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | J H Burn |
| Profession: | prof pharmacology |
| University: | University of Oxford |
| City: | Oxford |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |