Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1950
Number:84 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Selman A Waksman
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1888
Year, Death:1973
Profession:prof microbiology
University:Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
City:New Brunswick
State:NJ
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Homer W Smith
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiology
Department:Physiological Laboratories
University:New York University
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Harry Goldblatt
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1891
Year, Death:1977
Profession:prof exp pathology
University:Case Western Reserve
City:Cleveland
State:OH
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:S Waksman: Discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. HW Smith and H Goldblatt: The connection between renal ischemia and hypertension
 
Nominator:
Name:C Oehme
Profession:prof medicine
City:Heidelberg
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: Also nominated by C Oehme was F Volhard (see entry 84-1)