| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1921 |
| Number: | 86 - 5 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Sir Charles S Sherrington |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1857 |
| Year, Death: | 1952 |
| Profession: | prof physiology |
| University: | University of Oxford |
| City: | Oxford |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932 | |
| Motivation: | Work on reflexes, investigation on decerebration and decapitation, especially the reciprocal innervation. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Torsten L Thunberg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1952 |
| Profession: | Prof physiology |
| University: | Lund University |
| City: | Lund |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| Comments: | Nomination was made jointly in the same letter by the following professors: E. Overton, prof pharmacology, L. Broman, prof anatomy, K. Petrén, prof medicine, E. Sjövall, prof pathology and forensic medicine, T. Thunberg, prof physiology, in Lund, SE; G. Bergmark, prof pediatrics and practical medicine, G. Göthlin, prof physiology, R. Bárány, NP med 1914, in Uppsala, SE; A. Wimmer, prof psychiatry, J.C. Bock, prof pharmacology, V. Henriques, prof physiology, A. Krogh, NP med 1920, T. Madsen, head Danish State Serum Institute, L.S. Fredricia, prof hygiene, in Copenhagen, DK. |