Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1950
Number:70 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Selman A Waksman
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1888
Year, Death:1973
Profession:prof microbiology
University:Rutgers University
City:New Brunswick
State:NJ
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Helen B Taussig
Gender:F
Profession:prof pediatrics
University:Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Alfred Blalock
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1899
Year, Death:1964
Profession:prof surgery
University:Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:Waksman:Work concerning streptomycin and neomycin Blalock + Taussig: Surgical treatment of malformations and functional defects of the heart.
 
Nominator:
Name:H Kleinschmidt
Profession:prof pediatrics
City:Göttingen
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: Also mentioned to possibly share the prize with Waksman was R Lieske