Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:	1948
Number:	71 - 0
Nominee 1:
Name:	Edwin B Astwood
Gender:	M
Year, Birth:	1909
Year, Death:	1976
Profession:	assoc prof pharmacology
City:	New Haven
State:	CT
Country:	UNITED STATES (US)
Nominee 2:
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:
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.