| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1944 |
| Number: | 18 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Alfred N Richards |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1876 |
| Year, Death: | 1966 |
| Profession: | prof pharmacology |
| University: | Pennsylvania |
| City: | Philadelphia |
| State: | PA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Edwin B Astwood |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1909 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | Dr |
| University: | Johns Hopkins University |
| City: | Baltimore |
| State: | MD |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Harry Goldblatt |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1891 |
| Year, Death: | 1977 |
| Profession: | prof pathology |
| University: | Case Western Reserve |
| City: | Cleveland |
| State: | OH |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | A. Richards: Work on the physiology of the kidneys.
E. Astwood: Treatment of thyrotoxicosis with thiourea and thiouracil.
H.Goldblatt: Experimental method of producing hypertension through renal ischemia. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | George R Minot |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1885 |
| Year, Death: | 1950 |
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med, 1934 |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 |
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