Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1929
Number:19 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:George R Minot
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1885
Year, Death:1950
Profession:prof medicine
University:Harvard University
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Edwin J Cohn
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1892
Year, Death:1953
Profession:prof physiological chemistry
University:Harvard Medical School
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:G. Minot: Discovered that eating liver will remove the clinical manifestations of pernicious anemia. E. Cohn: Isolation of the specific substance in the liver which brings about this result (see Minot).
 
Nominator:
Name:James H Means
Gender:M
Profession:prof medicine
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Comments: Evaluation by I. Holmgren also included W. P. Murphy.