| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1931 | 
| Number: | 85 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Peyton  Rous | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1879 | 
| Year, Death: | 1970 | 
| Profession: | dr, head dept | 
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now  Rockefeller University) | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 | 
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| Motivation: | Work on cultivation of tumours in vitro and the Rous sarcoma. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Pietro  Rondoni | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof pathology | 
| University: | University of Milan | 
| City: | Milan | 
| Country: | ITALY (IT) | 
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