Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1943
Number:18 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Alexander Fleming
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1881
Year, Death:1955
Profession:prof bacteriology
University:St Mary´s Hospital Medical School
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Howard W Florey
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1898
Year, Death:1968
Profession:prof pathology
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945
 
Motivation:Discovery and development of the new chemotherapeutic agent "penicillin".
 
Nominator:
Name:Rudolph A Peters
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Year, Death:1982
Profession:prof biochemistry
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
 

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