Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1926
Number:46 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Sir Charles S Sherrington
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1857
Year, Death:1952
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Rudolf Magnus
Gender:M
Profession:prof pharmacology
University:Utrecht University
City:Utrecht
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
 
Motivation:C. Sherrington: Work on segmental innervation, the physiology of reflex action, "decerebrate rigidity" and tonus, and on the function of the cerebral cortex. R. Magnus: Studies of posture and its dependence on the labyrinths and proprioceptive pathways from muscles and joints.
 
Nominator:
Name:J A Gunn
Gender:M
Profession:prof pharmacology
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)