| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Number: | 92 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Selman A Waksman |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | prof microbiology |
| University: | Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station |
| City: | New Brunswick |
| State: | NJ |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | P R Burkholder |
| Profession: | Dr |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Benjamin M Duggar |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof emeritus plant physiology and economic botany |
| City: | Madison |
| State: | WI |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | S. Waksman: Discovery of Streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
B. Duggar: Discovery of Aureomycin.
P. Buckholder: Discovery of Chloromycetin. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | C H Stuart-Harris |
| Profession: | prof medicine |
| City: | Sheffield |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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