| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1938 | 
| Number: | 44 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Oswald Theodore  Avery | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1877 | 
| Year, Death: | 1955 | 
| Profession: | 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: | Associate 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: | Alphonse R Dochez | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1882 | 
| Year, Death: | 1964 | 
| Profession: | prof medicine | 
| University: | New York University | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Motivation: | Work on the role of carbohydrates on bacterial immunity. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | M  Lisbonne | 
| Profession: | prof microbiology | 
| University: | University of Montpellier | 
| City: | Montpellier | 
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) | 
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