| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1944 | 
| Number: | 20 - 0 | 
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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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| Motivation: | Studies on action potentials in the nervous system. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Ragnar  Granit | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1900 | 
| Year, Death: | 1991 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med, 1967. prof, head | 
| Department: | Neurophysiological laboratory | 
| University: | Karolinska Institutet | 
| City: | Stockholm | 
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967 | 
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