Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1950
Number:100 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:George Wells Beadle
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1903
Year, Death:1989
Profession:prof biology
University:California Institute of Technology
City:Pasadena
State:CA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Max Hartmann
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1876
Year, Death:1962
Profession:prof biology
University:Max Planck Institut
City:Göttingen
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Edwin J Cohn
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1892
Year, Death:1953
Profession:prof biochemistry
Department:Department of Physical Chemistry
University:Harvard Medical School
City:Boston
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:G W Beadle: Work on the correlation between simple genes and individual metabolic reactions. M Hartmann: Work on compounds (gamones) promoting fertilization in vertebrates and invertebrates. E J Cohn: Work on fractionation and therapeutic applications of plasma proteins.
 
Nominator:
Name:Kurt Felix
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiological chemistry
City:Frankfurt am Main
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: Also nominated by K Felix were JT Edsall (see entry 100-1) The nominator suggested that Cohn should share the prize with John T Edsall,
 

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