Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1938
Number:92 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Edgar Allen
Gender:M
Profession:prof anatomy
University:Yale University
City:New Haven
State:CT
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Herbert M Evans
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1882
Year, Death:1971
Profession:prof anatomy
University:University of California
City:Berkeley
State:CA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Sigmund Freud
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1856
Year, Death:1939
Profession:prof emer, docent nerve pathology
University:Vienna
City:Vienna
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Motivation:Allen: Work on the Allen-Doisy test (oestrous reaction in mice). Evans: Work on the physiology of the anterior hypophysis (growth hormone, gonadotropic hormone). Freud: Work on the subconscious (dream interpretation, psychoanalysis).
 
Nominator:
Name:Otto Loewi
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1873
Year, Death:1961
Profession:Nobel Laureate med 1936
University:University of Graz
City:Graz
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)