Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1949
Number:92 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Selman A Waksman
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1888
Year, Death:1973
Profession:prof microbiology
University:Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
City:New Brunswick
State:NJ
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952
 
Nominee 2:
Name:P R Burkholder
Profession:Dr
City:New Haven
State:CT
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Benjamin M Duggar
Gender:M
Profession:prof emeritus plant physiology and economic botany
City:Madison
State:WI
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Motivation:S. Waksman: Discovery of Streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. B. Duggar: Discovery of Aureomycin. P. Buckholder: Discovery of Chloromycetin.
 
Nominator:
Name:C H Stuart-Harris
Profession:prof medicine
City:Sheffield
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)