| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 
| Year: | 1959 | 
| Number: | 55 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | David E Green | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1910 | 
| Year, Death: | 1983 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| University: | University of Wisconsin | 
| City: | Madison | 
| State: | WI | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Feodor  Lynen | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1911 | 
| Year, Death: | 1979 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| University: | University of Munich | 
| City: | Munich | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Robert Burns B Woodward | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1917 | 
| Year, Death: | 1979 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965 | 
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| Nominee 4: 
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| Name: | Christopher Kelk  Ingold | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1893 | 
| Year, Death: | 1970 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | University of London | 
| City: | London | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | P S Sarma | 
| City: | Madras (now Chennai) | 
| Country: | INDIA (IN) | 
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| Comments: | First choice: D E Green sharing prize with Feodor Lynen.
Second choice: Robert B Woodward and Sir Christopher K Ingold. | 
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