| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Number: | 112 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | George Wells Beadle |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1903 |
| Year, Death: | 1989 |
| Profession: | Professor biology |
| University: | California Institute of Technology |
| City: | Pasadena |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Edwin J Cohn |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1892 |
| Year, Death: | 1953 |
| Profession: | Professor biochemistry |
| University: | Harvard Medical School |
| City: | Boston |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Selman A Waksman |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | Professor microbiology |
| University: | Rutgers University |
| City: | New Brunswick |
| State: | NJ |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |
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| Motivation: | G W Beadle: Work on the correlation between simple genes and individual metabolic reactions.
E J Cohn: Fractionation of plasma proteins, and their therapeutic use.
S A Waksman: Streptomycin.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | H J Deuticke |
| Profession: | Professor physiological chemistry |
| City: | Göttingen |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
Also mentioned by H J Deuticke was G Hevesy |
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