| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1927 | 
| Number: | 21 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | 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 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Rudolf  Magnus | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1873 | 
| Year, Death: | 1927 | 
| Profession: | prof pharmacology | 
| University: | Utrecht University | 
| City: | Utrecht | 
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) | 
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| Motivation: | C. Sherrington: Work on segmental innervation, the physiology of reflex action,
"decerebrate rigidity" and tonus, and on the function of the cerebral cortex.
R. Magnus: Studies of posture and its dependence on the labyrinths and proprioceptive 
pathways from muscles and joints. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Archibald V Hill | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1886 | 
| Year, Death: | 1977 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1922 | 
| University: | University of London | 
| City: | London | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1922 | 
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| Comments: | Evaluation by H. Gertz included A. de Kleijn. | 
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