| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1949 | 
| Number: | 78 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Walter R Hess | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1881 | 
| Year, Death: | 1973 | 
| Profession: | prof normal and pathologic odontological histology | 
| University: | University of Zurich | 
| City: | Zurich | 
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 | 
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| Motivation: | Work on preservation of teeth, especially the histology of the root canal. Effects of devitalisation agents, antoseptics and chemotherapeutic agents on the pulp tissue and periapical tissue. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Alfred  Gysi | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | honorary prof, medicine | 
| University: | University of Zurich | 
| City: | Zurich | 
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) | 
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