| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 2 - 1 |
| Motivation: | Dilworth W. Woolley, Dr, dept head, Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, New York, NY, USA, was nominated for work on the importance of nicotinic acid in treatment of "black tongue" in dogs and in pellegra in man. Maurizio Oscoli [Ascoli], University of Palermo, Palermo, IT, was nominated for treatment of malaria and tumours of the spleen by intravenous injection of adrenalin. See comment. Nominator was O. Borrino, University of Perugia, Perugia, IT. Nomination was declared invalid by the Nobel Committee. |
| Comments: | D. Woolley was nominated together with Elvehjem, Madden and Strong. See entry nr 2-0. M. Oscoli: ...pour sa méthode de traitement de la fiévre paludienne et de la tumeur splénique relative, par les injections intraveineuses d´adrenaline... |
