| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1937 |
| Number: | 86 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Joseph Erlanger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1874 |
| Year, Death: | 1965 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | Washington |
| City: | Saint Louis |
| State: | MO |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Herbert S Gasser |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1963 |
| Profession: | head dept |
| 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 1944 | |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Sigmund Freud |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1856 |
| Year, Death: | 1939 |
| Profession: | prof emer, assoc prof nerve pathology |
| University: | Vienna |
| City: | Vienna |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
| Motivation: | Erlanger and Gasser: Work on the speed of nervous impulses in different nerves, and changes in the electric potential in these nerves. Freud: Work on the subconscious (dream interpretation, phobias, psychoanalysis). |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Hans Winterstein |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | Istanbul University |
| City: | Istanbul |
| Country: | TURKEY (TR) |
