| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1950 | 
| Number: | 41 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Charles Herbert  Best | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1899 | 
| Year, Death: | 1978 | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| University: | University of Toronto | 
| City: | Toronto | 
| State: | ON | 
| Country: | CANADA (CA) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Vincent  du Vigneaud | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1901 | 
| Year, Death: | 1978 | 
| Profession: | prof biochemistry | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 | 
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| Motivation: | C H Best: Work on insulin, on choline and lipid metabolism, and on histaminase.
V du Vigneaud: Work on transmethylation. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Bernardo Alberto  Houssay | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1887 | 
| Year, Death: | 1971 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1947 | 
| City: | Buenos Aires | 
| Country: | ARGENTINA (AR) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 | 
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