| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Number: | 76 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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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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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Helen B Taussig |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1898 |
| Year, Death: | 1986 |
| Profession: | assoc 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: | Dilworth Wayne W 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) |
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| 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. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Corneille J Heymans |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1892 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1938 |
| City: | Ghent |
| Country: | BELGIUM (BE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938 |
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| Comments: |
Evaluation included R. Gross and C. Beck (see entry nr 16-0). |
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