| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1915 |
| Number: | 28 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Simon Flexner |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1863 |
| Year, Death: | 1946 |
| Profession: | director |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | William C Gorgas |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1854 |
| Year, Death: | 1920 |
| Profession: | surgeon general |
| University: | United States Army |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Almroth E Wright |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1861 |
| Year, Death: | 1947 |
| Profession: | prof experimental pathology |
| University: | University College |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Motivation: | Flexner: Work in vaccine therapy.
Gorgas: Work in sanitation, namely the eradication of yellow fever and malaria from Cuba and the Panama Canal zone.
Wright: Work on the serotherapy of meningitis and researches on infantile paralysis. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | John B Nichols |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof histology |
| City: | Washington, DC |
| State: | DC |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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