| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Number: | 66 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Oswald Theodore Avery |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1877 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | former dept head |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Edwin J Cohn |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1892 |
| Year, Death: | 1953 |
| Profession: | prof biological chemistry |
| University: | Harvard Medical School |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | O. Avery: Demonstrated that the capsule of pneumococcus is essential for its virulence. Work on the tramsmutation of types of pneumococci.
E. Cohn: Fractionation of plasma proteins, and their use.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Paul Reznikoff |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof medicine |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Comments: |
Also nominated by P. Reznikoff were R. Dubos and S. Waksman (see entry nr 66-1). |
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