| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1927 |
| Number: | 9 - 0 |
| Motivation: | Sir Frederick G. Hopkins (NP med 1929), prof biochemistry, Cambridge University, GB, was nominated for the discovery of "accessory factors" (now, vitamins), as essential nutritional components. Discovery of antioxidizable constituents of the cell. Nominator was Prof John H. Northrop, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, NJ, USA. Nomination was declared invalid by the Nobel Committee. |