Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1949
Number:21 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Oswald Theodore Avery
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1877
Year, Death:1955
Profession:former dept head
University:Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:Showed the immunological and general biological importance of polysaccharides of bacterial origin. Work on the tramsmutation of types of pneumococci.
 
Nominator:
Name:James M Neill
Gender:M
Profession:prof bacteriology and immunology
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)