| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1945 | 
| Number: | 39 - 1 | 
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| Nominee: 
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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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| Motivation: | Work on the physiology of the kidneys. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Isaac  Starr | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | Hartzell research prof of therapeutics | 
| University: | Pennsylvania | 
| City: | Philadelphia | 
| State: | PA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Comments: | Richards was also nominated (in the same letter) for his work in spreading the use of pennicillin (see entry 39-2). | 
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