| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Number: | 28 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Ernest Witebsky |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof bacteriology and immunology |
| University: | University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences |
| City: | Buffalo |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | 1. Fundamental work on biological specificity such as organ specificity and cancer specificity. 2. Fundamental work on the immunology of the blood groups and the Rh factors and his discovery of the nature of the O and B substances. 3. Studies on the serodiagnosis of infectious diaseses especially syphilis, gonorrhoea, tuberculosis and trichinosis. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | A H Aaron |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof clinical medicine |
| University: | University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences |
| City: | Buffalo |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Comments: |
Also nominated by BD Byron (see entry nr 28-0) |
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