| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1942 | 
| Number: | 46 - 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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| Motivation: | The discovery of the immunologically specific polysaccharides and 
its consequences. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | P F Clark | 
| Profession: | prof bacteriology | 
| University: | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | 
| City: | Madison | 
| State: | WI | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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