| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1916 | 
| Number: | 26 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Theobald  Smith | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1859 | 
| Year, Death: | 1934 | 
| Profession: | prof comparative pathology | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Motivation: | Work on Texas fever, which he showed to be transmitted through the tick. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | M J Rosenau | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| University: | Harvard University | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| State: | MA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Comments: | No motivation given. This motivation from his previous nomination of 1913. | 
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