Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1934
Number:41 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:George R Minot
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1885
Year, Death:1950
Profession:prof medicine
University:Harvard University
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934
 
Nominee 2:
Name:George H Whipple
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1878
Year, Death:1976
Profession:prof pathology
University:University of Rochester
City:Rochester
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934
 
Motivation:Minot: Work on liver treatment of pernicious anaemia. Whipple: The discovery that regeneration of red blood cells and the formation of haemoglobin in dogs made anaemic by haemorrhage could be greatly accelerated by providing liver or kidney tissue in the diet.
 
Nominator:
Name:Charles Herbert Best
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1899
Year, Death:1978
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Toronto
City:Toronto
State:ON
Country:CANADA (CA)