Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1947
Number:30 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Sir Edward Mellanby
Gender:M
Profession:secretary
University:Medical Research Council
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:Work on fat-soluble vitamins, especially the anti-rachitic vitamin and other anticalcifying factors in the diet (fytin acid), effects of vitamin A deficiency in the diet leading to neurological conditions and hypertrophy of the bones of the skull
 
Nominator:
Name:Stuart J Cowell
Gender:M
Profession:prof of dietetics
University:University of London
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)