| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 79 - 0 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Peyton Rous |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1879 |
| Year, Death: | 1970 |
| Profession: | dept head |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 |
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| Motivation: | Work on the filterability of the existing agent of certain fowl tumours and the carcinogenic effect of papilloma virus injected in rabbits. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Howard W Florey |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1898 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | prof pathology, Nobel Laureate med 1945 |
| University: | University of Oxford |
| City: | Oxford |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 |
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