Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1939
Number:72 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Bernardo Alberto Houssay
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1887
Year, Death:1971
Profession:prof physiology
University:University of Buenos Aires
City:Buenos Aires
Country:ARGENTINA (AR)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947
 
Motivation:Discovery of the physiological role of the anterior hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism; work on the relation of the kidney to hypertension.
 
Nominator:
Name:Rudolph A Peters
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Year, Death:1982
Profession:prof biochemistry
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)