Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1920
Number:89 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Simon Flexner
Gender:M
Profession:prof, director
University:Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:Work on the therapy of meningitis; preparation and use of Flexner´s serum; studies on poliomyelitis, the epidemiology of infantile paralysis and the Flexner-Shiga bacillus in dysentery.
 
Nominator:
Name:Russel H Chittenden
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiological chemistry
University:Yale University
City:New Haven
State:CT
Country:UNITED STATES (US)