Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1940
Number:40 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Hans Zinsser
Gender:M
Profession:prof bacteriology
University:Harvard University
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:Development of methods for large-scale production of a vaccine against typhus.
 
Nominator:
Name:George W Holmes
Gender:M
Profession:prof radiology
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Comments: A second copy of this letter was received a few weeks later and is included as an invalid nomination for the year 1941 (see entry 1941:12-0).