Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1950
Number:106 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Alfred Blalock
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1899
Year, Death:1964
Profession:prof surgery
University:Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Helen B Taussig
Gender:F
Profession:prof pediatrics
University:Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Philip S Hench
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1896
Year, Death:1965
Profession:Doctor
University:Mayo Foundation
City:Rochester
State:MN
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950
 
Motivation:A Blalock and H Taussig: Surgical treatment of malformations and functional defects of the heart. P Hench: Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and acute rheumatic fever with cortisone and ACTH.
 
Nominator:
Name:R Schoen
Profession:prof medicine
City:Göttingen
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: Also nominated by R Schoen were SA Waksman, EC Kendall, H Selye (see entry no 106-0)