| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1935 |
| Number: | 9 - 0 |
| Motivation: | Dr Oswald T. Avery, dept head at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, US, was nominated for the discovery that certain carbohydrates may be specific and play a role analogous to that of proteins in immunity. Nominator was W.J. Osterhout, head of the Division of General Physiology, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, US. Nomination was declared invalid by the Nobel Committee. |