| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1941 | 
| Number: | 48 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Joseph  Erlanger | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1874 | 
| Year, Death: | 1965 | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| University: | Washington | 
| City: | Saint Louis | 
| State: | MO | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Herbert S Gasser | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1888 | 
| Year, Death: | 1963 | 
| Profession: | head | 
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now  Rockefeller University) | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 | 
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| Motivation: | Studies on action potentials in the nervous system. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Henri  Fredericq | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| City: | Liège | 
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) | 
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