| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Number: | 78 - 0 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Walter R Hess |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1881 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | prof normal and pathologic odontological histology |
| University: | University of Zurich |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 |
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| Motivation: | Work on preservation of teeth, especially the histology of the root canal. Effects of devitalisation agents, antoseptics and chemotherapeutic agents on the pulp tissue and periapical tissue. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Alfred Gysi |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | honorary prof, medicine |
| University: | University of Zurich |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
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