| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1940 | 
| Number: | 44 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Adolf F Butenandt | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1903 | 
| Year, Death: | 1995 | 
| Profession: | prof, head  (see comment) | 
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biochemie (now Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) | 
| City: | Berlin | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 | 
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| Motivation: | Work on internal secretion. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Julius  Wagner-Jauregg | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1857 | 
| Year, Death: | 1940 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1927 | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927 | 
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