| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1939 | 
| Number: | 67 - 2 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Edward  Mellanby | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1884 | 
| Year, Death: | 1955 | 
| Profession: | prof, secretary | 
| University: | Medical Research Council | 
| City: | London | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Lady May  Mellanby | 
| Gender: | F | 
| Year, Birth: | 1882 | 
| Year, Death: | 1978 | 
| Profession: | MD | 
| University: | University of London | 
| City: | London | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
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| Motivation: | Work on the relation of dietary deficiencies to human diseases. (Sir E. Mellanby: Rickets and the nervous conditions produced by lack of vitamin A. Lady M. Mellanby: Dental structure and dental disease.) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Charles S Sherrington | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1857 | 
| Year, Death: | 1952 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1932 | 
| University: | University of Oxford | 
| City: | Oxford | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 | 
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