Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1941
Number:23 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:John H Northrop
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1891
Year, Death:1987
Profession:Department head
University:Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Wendell M Stanley
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1904
Year, Death:1971
Profession:Dr
Department:Animal and Plant Pathology Division
University:Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Fritz Kögl
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1897
Year, Death:1959
Profession:prof organic chemistry
City:Utrecht
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
 
Motivation:J.Northrop: Purification and crystallization of enzymes. W.Stanley: Crystallization of plant viruses. F. Kögl: Work on plant hormones, especially auxines. See comment.
 
Nominator:
Name:Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1893
Year, Death:1986
Profession:Nobel Laureate med 1937
Country:HUNGARY (HU)
 
Comments: As the prize for 1940 was withheld, Szent-Györgyi renewed his nomination of Northrop and Stanley for the prize of 1940 in case of it being awarded at a later date. Fr. Kögl was nominated for the 1941 Nobel Prize.