| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1928 |
| Number: | 68 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Aldo Castellani |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1877 |
| Year, Death: | 1971 |
| Profession: | prof tropical medicine |
| University: | Tulane University |
| City: | New Orleans |
| State: | LA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Motivation: | "The Founder of tropical mycology and tropical dermatology". Studies on the etiology of vesicular fever, papular fever and many other diseases. Work on sleeping-sickness and framboesia. |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Maurizio Ascoli |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof medicine |
| University: | University of Catania |
| City: | Catania |
| Country: | ITALY (IT) |