| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1938 | 
| Number: | 92 - 1 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Edgar  Allen | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1892 | 
| Year, Death: | 1943 | 
| Profession: | prof anatomy | 
| University: | Yale University | 
| City: | New Haven | 
| State: | CT | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Herbert M Evans | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1882 | 
| Year, Death: | 1971 | 
| Profession: | prof anatomy | 
| University: | University of California | 
| City: | Berkeley | 
| State: | CA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Sigmund  Freud | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1856 | 
| Year, Death: | 1939 | 
| Profession: | prof emer, docent nerve pathology | 
| University: | Vienna | 
| City: | Vienna | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
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| Motivation: | Allen: Work on the Allen-Doisy test (oestrous reaction in mice).
Evans: Work on the physiology of the anterior hypophysis (growth hormone, gonadotropic hormone).
Freud: Work on the subconscious (dream interpretation, psychoanalysis). | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Otto  Loewi | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1873 | 
| Year, Death: | 1961 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1936 | 
| University: | University of Graz | 
| City: | Graz | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 | 
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