| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1920 |
| Number: | 50 - 0 |
| Motivation: | Theobald Smith, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, US, was nominated for his numerous valuable contributions in the study of bacteriology and of animal diseases and particularly his pioneer work in the relation of insects to the transmission of disease. Nominator was prof David L. Edsall, Boston, MA, US. Nomination was declared invalid by the Nobel Committee. |