| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1920 |
| Number: | 89 - 0 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Simon Flexner |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1863 |
| Year, Death: | 1946 |
| Profession: | prof, director |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | Work on the therapy of meningitis; preparation and use of Flexner´s serum; studies on poliomyelitis, the epidemiology of infantile paralysis and the Flexner-Shiga bacillus in dysentery. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Russel H Chittenden |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof physiological chemistry |
| University: | Yale University |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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