| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1929 | 
| Number: | 96 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | George R Minot | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1885 | 
| Year, Death: | 1950 | 
| Profession: | prof medicine | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | William P Murphy | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1892 | 
| Year, Death: | 1987 | 
| Profession: | instructor in medicine | 
| University: | Peter Bent Brigham Hospital | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | George H Whipple | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1878 | 
| Year, Death: | 1976 | 
| Profession: | prof pathology | 
| University: | University of Rochester | 
| City: | Rochester | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 | 
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| Motivation: | G. Minot and W. Murphy: Work on the treatment of pernicious anemia by means of a diet rich in liver. 
G. Whipple: Discovered increased regeneration of blood in anemic animals when they were fed liver. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Gösta  Becker | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | prof medicine | 
| City: | Helsinki | 
| Country: | FINLAND (FI) | 
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