| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1919 |
| Number: | 83 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Joseph Barcroft |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1872 |
| Year, Death: | 1947 |
| Profession: | lecturer physiology |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| City: | Cambridge |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Francis G Benedict |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1870 |
| Year, Death: | 1957 |
| Profession: | head |
| University: | Carnegie Institution, Nutrition Laboratory |
| City: | Boston |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | August S Krogh |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1874 |
| Year, Death: | 1949 |
| Profession: | prof zoophysiology |
| University: | University of Copenhagen |
| City: | Copenhagen |
| Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1920 | |
| Motivation: | Barcroft: Work on the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin and on the role played by different organs in metabolism. Benedict: Work on metabolism. Krogh: Work on respiratory methods, gas exchange in the lungs, minute volume of the heart, micro gas analysis and the effect of abnormal nutritional conditions on metabolism. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Nathan Zuntz |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1847 |
| Year, Death: | 1920 |
| Profession: | prof zoophysiology |
| University: | Berlin |
| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |