| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Number: | 32 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Oswald Theodore Avery |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1877 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | former dept head |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Michael J Heidelberger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1991 |
| Profession: | Professor of biochemistry |
| Department: | College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| University: | Columbia University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Leonor Michaelis |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1875 |
| Year, Death: | 1949 |
| Profession: | Dr |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | O. Avery & M Heidelberger: "Discovery of the immunologically specific polysaccharides and the theoretical and practical consequences of this discovery".
L. Michaelis: Discovery of the principle of compulsory univalent oxidation (principle of single electron transfer). |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Otto Loewi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1961 |
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1936 |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 |
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