| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1947 | 
| Number: | 66 - 1 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Peyton  Rous | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1879 | 
| Year, Death: | 1970 | 
| Profession: | dept head | 
| 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: | Filterability of avian tumours, mechanism of carcinogenesis, new technique to obtain tumour material for experimental work. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Howard W Florey | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1898 | 
| Year, Death: | 1968 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1945 | 
| University: | University of Oxford | 
| City: | Oxford | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 | 
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