| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1938 |
| Number: | 92 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Edgar Allen |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof anatomy |
| University: | Yale University |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Herbert M Evans |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1882 |
| Year, Death: | 1971 |
| Profession: | prof anatomy |
| University: | University of California |
| City: | Berkeley |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Sigmund Freud |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1856 |
| Year, Death: | 1939 |
| Profession: | prof emer, docent nerve pathology |
| University: | Vienna |
| City: | Vienna |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
| Motivation: | Allen: Work on the Allen-Doisy test (oestrous reaction in mice). Evans: Work on the physiology of the anterior hypophysis (growth hormone, gonadotropic hormone). Freud: Work on the subconscious (dream interpretation, psychoanalysis). |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Otto Loewi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1961 |
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1936 |
| University: | University of Graz |
| City: | Graz |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
