| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Number: | 21 - 0 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Oswald Theodore Avery |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1877 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | former dept head |
| University: | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | Showed the immunological and general biological importance of polysaccharides of bacterial origin. Work on the tramsmutation of types of pneumococci. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | James M Neill |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | prof bacteriology and immunology |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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