| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Number: | 88 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Tadeus Reichstein |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1897 |
| Year, Death: | 1996 |
| Profession: | prof pharmaceutical chemistry |
| University: | University of Basel |
| City: | Basel |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Edward C Kendall |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1886 |
| Year, Death: | 1972 |
| Profession: | prof physiological chemistry |
| University: | Mayo Foundation |
| City: | Rochester |
| State: | MN |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 |
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| Motivation: | T Reichstein: Work on sterins.
E Kendall: For his notable contributions to biochemistry, culminating in the joint discovery (with PS Hench)of the value of cortisone in the treatment of rheumatism.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | J M Yoffey |
| Profession: | prof anatomy |
| University: | University of Bristol |
| City: | Bristol |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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