| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1931 | 
| Number: | 50 - 1 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | George R Minot | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1885 | 
| Year, Death: | 1950 | 
| Profession: | prof medicine | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | William P Murphy | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1892 | 
| Year, Death: | 1987 | 
| Profession: | instructor medicine | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | 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 | 
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| Motivation: | Minot and Murphy: The application of liver and liver extracts to the treatment of pernicious anaemia.
Sherrington: Work on the segmental innervation and cortex localization. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Fedor  Krause | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof surgery | 
| University: | Berlin | 
| City: | Berlin | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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