| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1947 | 
| Number: | 72 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Oswald Theodore  Avery | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1877 | 
| Year, Death: | 1955 | 
| Profession: | ex dept head | 
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now  Rockefeller University) | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Motivation: | Immunologically specific polysacharides and their mode of action. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | A A Miles | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof bacteriology | 
| University: | University of London | 
| City: | London | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
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