| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1950 | 
| Number: | 5 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Charles B Huggins | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1901 | 
| Year, Death: | 1998 | 
| Profession: | prof surgery | 
| University: | University of Chicago | 
| City: | Chicago | 
| State: | IL | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 | 
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| Motivation: | Treatment of prostatic cancer with castration and injection of estrogen | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Otto H Warburg | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1883 | 
| Year, Death: | 1970 | 
| Profession: | director | 
| University: | Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Zellphysiologie | 
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931 | 
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| Comments: | The nominator, Otto Warburg, was a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1931 | 
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