Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1948
Number:71 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Edwin B Astwood
Gender:M
Profession:assoc prof pharmacology
City:New Haven
State:CT
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Walter R Hess
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1881
Year, Death:1973
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Zurich
City:Zurich
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949
 
Motivation:Treatment of thyrotoxicosis with thiourea and thiouracil. See comment.
 
Nominator:
Name:I Abelin
Profession:Prof medical chemistry
City:Bern
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
 
Comments: Additional motivation for W.R. Hess by I. Abelin: Studies on the physiology of the central nervous system.