| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1943 | 
| Number: | 1 - 1 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Joseph  Erlanger | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1874 | 
| Year, Death: | 1965 | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| University: | Washington | 
| City: | Saint Louis | 
| State: | MO | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Herbert S Gasser | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1888 | 
| Year, Death: | 1963 | 
| Profession: | head | 
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now  Rockefeller University) | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Bernardo Alberto  Houssay | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1887 | 
| Year, Death: | 1971 | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| University: | Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine | 
| City: | Buenos Aires | 
| Country: | ARGENTINA (AR) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 | 
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| Motivation: | H. Gasser & J. Erlanger:  Relationship between fibro-size and nerve function.
B. Houssay:  Studies concerning high blood pressure. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Walter B Cannon | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1871 | 
| Year, Death: | 1945 | 
| Profession: | prof physiology | 
| University: | Harvard Medical School | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Comments: | 3 additional candidates were nominated by W. Cannon; see nr 1-0. | 
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