| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Number: | 71 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Edwin B Astwood |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1909 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | assoc prof pharmacology |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Walter R Hess |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1881 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | University of Zurich |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 |
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| Motivation: | Treatment of thyrotoxicosis with thiourea and thiouracil. See comment. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | I Abelin |
| Profession: | Prof medical chemistry |
| City: | Bern |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
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| Comments: |
Additional motivation for W.R. Hess by I. Abelin:
Studies on the physiology of the central nervous system. |
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