| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1936 | 
| Number: | 78 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Yandell  Henderson | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1873 | 
| Year, Death: | 1944 | 
| Profession: | prof applied physiology | 
| University: | Yale University | 
| City: | New Haven | 
| State: | CT | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Otto  Loewi | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1873 | 
| Year, Death: | 1961 | 
| Profession: | prof pharmacology | 
| University: | University of Graz | 
| City: | Graz | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 | 
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| Motivation: | Henderson: Work on acapnia and the use of carbon dioxide in the treatment when the respiratorial function is depressed.
Loewi: Work on the humoral transmission of nervous impulses. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Hans H Meyer | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1853 | 
| Year, Death: | 1939 | 
| Profession: | prof emer pharmacology | 
| University: | Vienna | 
| City: | Vienna | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
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