| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 
| Year: | 1951 | 
| Number: | 49 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Hermann  Staudinger | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1881 | 
| Year, Death: | 1965 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | University of Freiburg | 
| City: | Freiburg im Breisgau | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| University: | Staatliches Institut für makromolekulare Chemie | 
| City: | Freiburg im Breisgau | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Klaus  Clusius | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1903 | 
| Year, Death: | 1963 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| City: | Zurich | 
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Vincent  du Vigneaud | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1901 | 
| Year, Death: | 1978 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | Cornell University | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Adolf F Butenandt | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1903 | 
| Year, Death: | 1995 | 
| Profession: | previous winner of a NP in chemistry in 1939 | 
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biochemie (now Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) | 
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: H. Staudinger.
Second choice: K. Clusius and V. du Vigneaud. | 
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