Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 1940s
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: Herbert Spencer Gasser · Alexander Fleming · Howard Walter Florey. (Updated Aug 4, 2020.)
Every Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate between 1940 and 1949, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
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Top 14
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Herbert Spencer Gasser
1944. For their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres.
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Alexander Fleming
1945. For the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
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Howard Walter Florey
1945. For the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
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Hermann Joseph Muller
1946. For the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation.
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Henrik Dam
1943. For his discovery of vitamin K.
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Joseph Erlanger
1944. For their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres.
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Ernst Boris Chain
1945. For the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
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Carl Ferdinand Cori
1947. For their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.
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Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz
1947. For their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay
1947. For his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar.
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Paul Hermann Müller
1948. For his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods.
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Walter Rudolf Hess
1949. For his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs.
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Edward Adelbert Doisy
1943. For his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K.
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António Caetano Egas Moniz
1949. For his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy (lobotomy) in certain psychoses.
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Comments (4)
Egas Moniz y la lobotomía... hoy sería impensable.
Fleming, Chain y Florey, la penicilina, el gran premio del siglo.
Houssay, primer latinoamericano con Nobel de ciencias.
Los Cori, matrimonio y Nobel juntos.