| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1937 | 
| Number: | 62 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Peyton  Rous | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1879 | 
| Year, Death: | 1970 | 
| Profession: | head dept | 
| 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 1966 | 
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| Motivation: | Work on filterable virus as a cause of malignant tumours. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Otto F Meyerhof | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1884 | 
| Year, Death: | 1951 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1922 | 
| University: | Kiel University | 
| City: | Kiel | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1922 | 
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