| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Number: | 106 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Selman A Waksman |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | prof microbiology |
| University: | Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station |
| City: | New Brunswick |
| State: | NJ |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |
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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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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Hans Selye |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1907 |
| Year, Death: | 1982 |
| Profession: | prof experimental medicine and surgery |
| City: | Toronto |
| Country: | CANADA (CA) |
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| Motivation: | S A Waksman: Work concerning streptomycin and neomycin.
E Kendall: Discovery of thyroxine.
H Selye: Isolation of steroid hormones. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | R Schoen |
| Profession: | prof medicine |
| City: | Göttingen |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
Also nominated by R Schoen were H Taussig, J Blalock and P Hench (see entry no 106-1)
Full evaluations of nominee 2 were also made by Svartz, Nanna + Hammarsten, Einar
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