Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Year: | 1948 |
Number: | 71 - 0 |
Nominee 1: |
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Name: | Edwin B Astwood |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | assoc prof pharmacology |
City: | New Haven |
State: | CT |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Nominee 2: |
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Name: | Walter R Hess |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1881 |
Year, Death: | 1973 |
Profession: | prof physiology |
University: | University of Zurich |
City: | Zurich |
Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 | |
Motivation: | Treatment of thyrotoxicosis with thiourea and thiouracil. See comment. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | I Abelin |
Profession: | Prof medical chemistry |
City: | Bern |
Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
Comments: | Additional motivation for W.R. Hess by I. Abelin: Studies on the physiology of the central nervous system. |
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