Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1943
Number:22 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Conrad A Elvehjem
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1901
Year, Death:1962
Profession:prof agricultural chemistry
University:University of Wisconsin
City:Madison
State:WI
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Vincent du Vigneaud
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1901
Year, Death:1978
Profession:prof biochemistry
University:Cornell University Medical College
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955
 
Motivation:C. Elvehjem: Importance of nicotinic acid in treatment of "black tongue" in dogs and in pellegra in man. V. du Vigneaud: Demonstrated the process of transmethylation as carried out in the animal body. Studies of the structure of the biotin molecule.
 
Nominator:
Name:Charles D Snyder
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiology
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
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