Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1939
Number:79 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Peyton Rous
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1879
Year, Death:1970
Profession:dept head
University:Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966
 
Motivation:Work on the filterability of the existing agent of certain fowl tumours and the carcinogenic effect of papilloma virus injected in rabbits.
 
Nominator:
Name:Howard W Florey
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1898
Year, Death:1968
Profession:prof pathology, Nobel Laureate med 1945
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)