| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1902 | 
| Number: | 49 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Battista G Grassi | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1854 | 
| Year, Death: | 1925 | 
| Profession: | prof comparative anatomy | 
| University: | Rome | 
| City: | Rome | 
| Country: | ITALY (IT) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Ronald  Ross | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1857 | 
| Year, Death: | 1932 | 
| Profession: | lecturer | 
| University: | University College | 
| City: | Liverpool | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902 | 
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| Motivation: | For their work on the etiology of malaria. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Siegmund  Purjesz | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof internal medicine | 
| City: | Kolozsvar (now Cluj-Napoca) | 
| Country: | ROMANIA (RO) | 
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| Comments: | Both evaluations were made jointly by Carl Sundberg and Ernst Almquist. Evaluation 2 included Robert Koch. | 
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