| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1947 |
| Number: | 22 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Edward Mellanby |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1884 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | secretary |
| University: | Medical Research Council |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Motivation: | Work on fat-soluble vitamins, especially the anti-rachitic vitamin and other anticalcifying factors in the diet (fytin acid), effects of vitamin A deficiency in the diet leading to neurological conditions and hypertrophy of the bones of the skull |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | H P Himsworth |
| Profession: | prof biochemistry |
| University: | University of London |
| City: | London |