| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Number: | 84 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| 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 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Homer W Smith |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1895 |
| Year, Death: | 1962 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| Department: | Physiological Laboratories |
| University: | New York University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| 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) |
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| Motivation: | S Waksman: Discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
HW Smith and H Goldblatt: The connection between renal ischemia and hypertension |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | C Oehme |
| Profession: | prof medicine |
| City: | Heidelberg |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
Also nominated by C Oehme was F Volhard (see entry 84-1) |
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