| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1936 |
| Number: | 32 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Walter B Cannon |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1871 |
| Year, Death: | 1945 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Herbert S Gasser |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1963 |
| Profession: | head dept |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 | |
| Motivation: | Cannon: Work on the gastro-intestinal tract, hunger and thirst, adrenalin secretion, traumatic chock and homeostasis. Gasser: Work on a technique using the cathode ray oscillograph for the investigation of electric potential changes in nerve tissue. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | B Sachs |
| Profession: | prof clinical neurology |
| University: | New York University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |