| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| Year: | 1941 |
| Number: | 17 - 0 |
| Motivation: | Dr Alberto L. Barton was nominated for the discovery of b. Bertonella. See comment. Nominator was Carlos Enrique P. Soldán, prof hygiene, San Marcos University, Lima, PE. Nomination was declared invalid by the Nobel Committee. |
| Comments: | …descubrió la Bertonella bacilliformes, parásito jamás estimado como causador de dolencias y que fué el primer virus de tipo Rickett sia que se conoció en el mundo cientifico. |