| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 18 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Joseph N Needham |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1900 |
| Year, Death: | 1995 |
| Profession: | reader biochemistry |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| City: | Cambridge |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Motivation: | Work on biological microchemistry, especially the work "Chemical Embryology". |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | H Lams |
| Profession: | prof histology and embryology |
| University: | Ghent University |
| City: | Ghent |
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) |