Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1950
Number:58 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Ernest Witebsky
Gender:M
Profession:prof bacteriology and immunology
University:University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
City:Buffalo
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:1. Fundamental work on biological specificity such as organ specificity and cancer specificity. 2.Fundamental work on the immunology of the blood groups and the Rh factors and his discovery of the nature of the O and B substances. 3. Studies on the serodiagnosis of infectious diaseses especially syphilis, gonorrhoea, tuberculosis and trichinosis.
 
Nominator:
Name:Walter L Machemer
Gender:M
Profession:prof clinical surgery
University:University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
City:Buffalo
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)