| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1917 | 
| Number: | 72 - 1 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Ludwig  Aschoff | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1866 | 
| Year, Death: | 1942 | 
| Profession: | prof pathology and pathological anatomy | 
| University: | University of Freiburg | 
| City: | Freiburg im Breisgau | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Ewald K Hering | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1834 | 
| Year, Death: | 1918 | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| University: | Leipzig University | 
| City: | Leipzig | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Ludolf  von Krehl | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1861 | 
| Year, Death: | 1937 | 
| Profession: | prof special pathology and therapy | 
| University: | Heidelberg University | 
| City: | Heidelberg | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Motivation: | Aschoff: 
Hering: Work on sensory physiology in particular.
von Krehl: Internal medicine issues from the biological view of pathophysiology. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | M  Matthes | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof medicine | 
| University: | University of Königsberg | 
| City: | Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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