Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1938
Number:69 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Alexander Gurwitsch [Gurvitsch]
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1874
Year, Death:1954
Profession:prof histology
University:Leningrad (now St Petersburg)
City:Leningrad (now St Petersburg)
Country:U.S.S.R. (SU) now RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Bun-ichi Hasama
Gender:M
Profession:prof pharmacology
University:Keijo University
City:Keijo (now Seoul)
Country:KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (KR)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Erich von Holst
Gender:M
Profession:prof pharmacology
University:Ghent University
City:Ghent
Country:BELGIUM (BE)
 
Motivation:Gurwitsch: Work on mitogenetic radiation. Hasama: Work on changes in the electropotential of active endocrine glands. von Holst: Work on coordination and plasticity within the central nervous system.
 
Nominator:
Name:Albrecht Julius Theodor Bethe
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1872
Year, Death:1954
Profession:prof physiology
University:Frankfurt am Main
City:Frankfurt am Main
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: Keijo University probably refers to a university in Seoul, South Korea, possibly Seoul National University. South Korea, KR, was a colony of Japan in 1938 (Keijo is the Japanese name for Seoul, KR).
 

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