| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Number: | 70 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Selman A Waksman |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | prof microbiology |
| University: | Rutgers University |
| City: | New Brunswick |
| State: | NJ |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Helen B Taussig |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1898 |
| Year, Death: | 1986 |
| Profession: | prof pediatrics |
| University: | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| City: | Baltimore |
| State: | MD |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Alfred Blalock |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1899 |
| Year, Death: | 1964 |
| Profession: | prof surgery |
| University: | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| City: | Baltimore |
| State: | MD |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | Waksman:Work concerning streptomycin and neomycin
Blalock + Taussig: Surgical treatment of malformations and functional defects of the heart.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | H Kleinschmidt |
| Profession: | prof pediatrics |
| City: | Göttingen |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
Also mentioned to possibly share the prize with Waksman was R Lieske |
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