Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year: 1950
Number: 84 - 0
Nominee 1:
Name: Selman A Waksman
Gender: M
Year, Birth: 1888
Year, Death: 1973
Profession: prof microbiology
University: Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
City: New Brunswick
State: NJ
Country: UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952
Nominee 2:
Name: Homer W Smith
Gender: M
Profession: prof physiology
Department: Physiological Laboratories
University: New York University
City: New York
State: NY
Country: UNITED STATES (US)
Nominee 3:
Name: Harry Goldblatt
Gender: M
Year, Birth: 1891
Year, Death: 1977
Profession: prof exp pathology
University: Case Western Reserve
City: Cleveland
State: OH
Country: UNITED STATES (US)
Motivation: S Waksman: Discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
HW Smith and H Goldblatt: The connection between renal ischemia and hypertension
Nominator:
Name: C Oehme
Profession: prof medicine
City: Heidelberg
Country: GERMANY (DE)
Comments:
Also nominated by C Oehme was F Volhard (see entry 84-1)
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