Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1949
Number:76 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
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)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Helen B Taussig
Gender:F
Profession:assoc prof pediatrics
University:Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Dilworth Wayne Woolley
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1914
Year, Death:1966
Profession:Dr, dept head
University:Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:A. Blalock & H. Taussig: Experimental studies, and surgical treatment of malformations of the heart. D. Woolley: Study of the biological antagonism between metabolically important compounds and their structural analogs; isolation and identification of the vitamins: nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, inositol and strepogonin; studies of the nutritional requirements of microorganisms and animals.
 
Nominator:
Name:Corneille J Heymans
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1892
Year, Death:1968
Profession:Nobel Laureate med 1938
City:Ghent
Country:BELGIUM (BE)
 
Comments: Evaluation included R. Gross and C. Beck (see entry nr 16-0).