List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1920–1929)

The following is a list of people first nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine between 1920 and 1929 by year of first nomination.

See also List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1901–1909) List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1910–1919) List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1930–1939) List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1940–1949) List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1950–1959)

1920–1929

PictureNameBornDiedYears nominatedNotes1920Johannes FibigerApril 23, 1867 Silkeborg, DenmarkJanuary 30, 1928 Copenhagen, Denmark1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928Won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine a year laterThomas Hunt MorganSeptember 25, 1866 Lexington, Kentucky, United StatesDecember 4, 1945 Pasadena, California, United States1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934Won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineJohn Brian ChristophersonApril 30, 1868 Batley, Yorkshire, England, United KingdomJuly 21, 1955 Lydney, England, United Kingdom1920Luis AgoteSeptember 22, 1868 Buenos Aires, ArgentinaNovember 12, 1954 Turdera, Argentina1920Nominated jointly by V.Izq.Sanfuentes the only timeÉmile JeanbrauOctober 1, 1873 Alès, FranceMay 14, 1950 Montpellier, FranceRichard LewisohnJuly 12, 1875 Hamburg, German EmpireAugust 11, 1961 New York, United StatesErich LexerMay 22, 1867 Freiburg im Breisgau, Grand Duchy of BadenDecember 4, 1937 Berlin, Nazi Germany1920Nominated by K.Alb.L.Aschoff the only timeHans HeldAugust 8, 1866 Neukloster, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German ConfederationDecember 8 or 15, 1942 Leipzig, Nazi Germany1920Nominated by F.Sieglbauer the only timeAntonio GrossichJune 7, 1849 Draguć, Austrian EmpireOctober 1, 1926 Fiume, Kingdom of Italy1920Nominated by F.Krause the only timeRufus ColeApril 30, 1872 Rowsburg, Ohio, United StatesApril 20, 1966 Washington, D.C., United States1920Nominated by L.Emm.Holt the only timeAntoine DepageNovember 28, 1862 Watermael-Boitsfort, BelgiumJune 10, 1925 The Hague, Netherlands1920Nominated by professor Baron from Dijon the only timeArthur BiedlOctober 4, 1869 Kiskomlós, Arch-Kingdom of HungaryAugust 26, 1933 Steinbach am Attersee, Austria1920Nominated by H.Preisz the only timeHoward Taylor RickettsFebruary 9, 1871 Findlay, Ohio, United StatesMay 3, 1910 Mexico City, Mexico1920Nominated posthumously by A.Korányi the only timeHenri Dominici1867 Stretford, EnglandMay 21, 1919 Paris, FranceKarl Oskar MedinAugust 14, 1847 Axberg, Närke, SwedenDecember 24, 1927 Stockholm, Sweden1920Nominated by J.Bókay, Jr. the only timeGustav KillianJune 2, 1860 Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German ConfederationFebruary 24, 1921 Berlin, Weimar Germany1906, 1918, 1920, 1921Wilhelm JohannsenFebruary 3, 1857 Elsinore, DenmarkNovember 11, 1927 Copenhagen, Denmark1920, 1923Leonardo BianchiApril 5, 1848 San Bartolomeo in Galdo, Kingdom of the Two SiciliesFebruary 13, 1927 Naples, Kingdom of Italy1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1927Heinrich BraunJanuary 1, 1862 Rawitsch, Province of Posen, Kingdom of PrussiaApril 26, 1934 Überlingen, Weimar Germany1920, 1930, 1933Oscar BernhardMay 24, 1861 Samedan, SwitzerlandNovember 14, 1939 St. Moritz, Switzerland1920, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1932Auguste RollierOctober 1, 1874 Saint-Aubin, Fribourg, SwitzerlandOctober 30, 1954 Vaud, Switzerland1920, 1924, 1930, 1932, 1933Alexandre BesredkaMarch 29, 1870 Odesa, Russian EmpireFebruary 28, 1940 Paris, France1920, 1924, 1932, 1934John Scott HaldaneMay 2, 1860 Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomMarch 14/15, 1936 Oxford, England1920, 1926, 1935Robert McCarrisonMarch 15, 1878 Portadown, Northern Ireland, United KingdomMay 18, 1960 Oxford, England1920, 1921, 1937Oskar VogtApril 6, 1870 Husum, Kingdom of Prussia, North German ConfederationJuly 30, 1959 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1937, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 19561921Karl LandsteinerJune 14, 1868 Baden bei Wien, Austria-HungaryJune 26, 1943 New York, United States1913, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931Won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineErnst FuchsJune 14, 1851 Vienna, Austrian EmpireNovember 21, 1930 Vienna, Austria1921Nominated by Manuel Márquez Rodríguez the only timeJoseph Jules DejerineAugust 3, 1849 Geneva, SwitzerlandFebruary 26, 1917 Paris, France1921Nominated posthumously with H.H.Meyer and C.von Monakow by Fr.von Müller the only timeCharles WillemsDecember 5, 1859 Ghent, BelgiumJanuary 19, 1930 Liège, Belgium1921Nominated by William Thomas Coughlin the only timeArthur Isaac KendallMay 7, 1877 Somerville, Massachusetts, United StatesJune 20, 1959 La Jolla, United States1921Nominated by Frederick Robert Zeit the only timePierre MarieSeptember 9, 1853 Paris, FranceApril 13, 1940 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France1921Henri DuretJuly 7, 1849 Condé-sur-Noireau, FranceApril 7, 1921 Lille, France1921, 1922Died before the only chance to be rewardedEugène GleyJanuary 18, 1857 Épinal, FranceOctober 24, 1930 Paris, France1915, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931Nicolas Maurice ArthusJanuary 9, 1862 Angers, FranceFebruary 24, 1945 Fribourg, Switzerland1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1934Eugen SteinachJanuary 28, 1861 Hohenems, Austrian EmpireMay 14, 1944 Territet, Switzerland1920, 1921, 1922, 1927, 1930, 1934, 1938Walter Bradford CannonOctober 19, 1871 Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, United StatesOctober 1, 1945 Franklin, New Hampshire, United States1921, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 19451922Edward Calvin KendallMarch 8, 1886 South Norwalk, Connecticut, United StatesMay 4, 1972 Princeton, New Jersey, United States1922, 1925, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1950, 1951Shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ph.Sh.Hench and T.Reichstein and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry tooBenjamin LipschützOctober 4, 1878 Brody, Galicia, Austria-HungaryDecember 20, 1931 Vienna, Austria1922Nominated by Ludwig Merk (Graz: 1.3.1862-29.8.1925) the only timeBartolomeo GosioMarch 17, 1863 Magliano Alfieri, Kingdom of SardiniaApril 13, 1944 Rome, Kingdom of Italy1922Nominated by Pietro Canalis (27.10.1856 Osilo - 1939) the only timeHeinrich Jakob BechholdNovember 13, 1866 Frankfurt am Main, Kingdom of Prussia, North German ConfederationFebruary 17, 1937 Frankfurt am Main, Nazi Germany1922Nominated by Richard Ritter von Zeynek (9.12.1869 Graz – 28.6.1945 Passau) the only timeGuido BantiJune 8, 1852 Montebicchieri, Grand Duchy of TuscanyJanuary 8, 1925 Florence, Kingdom of Italy1922Nominated by Dante Pacchioni the only timeBaumel??1922Self-nominationRudolf MagnusSeptember 2, 1873 Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick, German EmpireJuly 25, 1927 Pontresina, France1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927Constantin LevaditiAugust 1, 1874 Galați, Romania, Ottoman EmpireSeptember 5, 1953 Paris, France1922, 1924, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939Cécile Vogt-MugnierMarch 27, 1875 Annecy, FranceMay 4, 1962 Cambridge, England1922, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956Nominated jointly with Osk.Vogt only1923Archibald HillSeptember 26, 1886 Bristol, EnglandJune 3, 1977 Cambridge, England1923Shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine a year laterOtto Fritz MeyerhofApril 12, 1884 Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, German EmpireOctober 6, 1951 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesJohn James Rickard MacleodSeptember 6, 1876 Clunie, Perthshire, ScotlandMarch 16, 1935 Aberdeen, Scotland1923, 1924Shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineFrederick BantingNovember 14, 1891 Alliston, CanadaFebruary 21, 1941 near Musgrave Harbour, Dominion of Newfoundland1923, 1924Frederick Gowland HopkinsJune 20, 1861 Eastbourne, EnglandMay 16, 1947 Cambridge, England1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929Shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Chr.Eijkman and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry tooOtto Heinrich WarburgOctober 8, 1883 Freiburg im Breisgau, Grand Duchy of Baden, German EmpireAugust 1, 1970 West Berlin, Germany1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1944, 1955Won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry tooGiuliano VanghettiOctober 8, 1861 Greve, Kingdom of ItalyMay 4, 1940 Empoli, Kingdom of Italy1920, 1923Nominated by Albr.J.Th.Bethe the only timeGeorg Matthias Martin Josef StickerApril 18, 1860 Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, German ConfederationAugust 28, 1960 Zell am Main, Germany1923Nominated by K.Sudhoff the only timeFriedrich DessauerJuly 19, 1881 Aschaffenburg, German EmpireFebruary 16, 1963 Frankfurt am Main, Germany1923Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics tooMaud SlyeFebruary 8, 1879 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United StatesSeptember 17, 1954 Chicago, Illinois, United States1923Nominated by Albert Soiland (1873–1946) the only timeLudwig Alfred SeitzMay 24, 1872 Pfaffenhofen an der Roth, German EmpireJune 19, 1961 Pfaffenhofen an der Roth, Germany1923Nominated by P.A.Suarez from Quito the only timeHermann Ludwig WintzAugust 12, 1887 Speyer, German EmpireJune 11, 1947 Zusmarshausen, Germany1923, 1928Paul FlechsigJune 29, 1847 Zwickau, Kingdom of Saxony, German ConfederationJuly 22, 1929 Leipzig, Weimar Germany1923, 1924Julius MorgenrothOctober 19, 1871 Bamberg, German EmpireDecember 20, 1924 Berlin, Weimar Germany1923, 1924Anatole ChauffardAugust 22, 1855 Avignon, FranceNovember 1, 1932 Paris, France1923, 1924Hans SachsJune 6, 1877 Kattowitz, Kingdom of Prussia, German EmpireMarch 25, 1945 Dublin, Republic of Ireland1923, 1926Adrianus Paulus Hubertus Antonius de KleynOctober 14, 1883 Ameide, NetherlandsMay 11, 1949 Amsterdam, Netherlands1923, 1926, 1927, 1929Philippe Antoine LasseurJune 27, 1882 Courçais, FranceJanuary 10, 1946 Nancy(?), France1923, 1930Nominated by J.P.Vuillemin onlyRudolf HöberDecember 27, 1873 Stettin, German EmpireSeptember 5, 1953 Philadelphia, United States1923, 1929, 1931Gustav EmbdenNovember 10, 1874 Hamburg, German EmpireJuly 25, 1933 Nassau, Nazi Germany1923, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry tooWilhelm KolleNovember 2, 1868 Lerbach, Osterode am Harz, Kingdom of Prussia, North German ConfederationMay 10, 1935 Berlin, Nazi Germany1923, 1930, 1934Jakob Johann von UexküllSeptember 8, 1864 Keblas Manor, Sankt Michaelis, Wiek County, Governorate of Estonia, Russian EmpireJuly 25, 1944 Capri, Kingdom of Italy1923, 1926, 1929, 1936, 1937Leonor MichaelisJanuary 16, 1875 Berlin, German EmpireOctober 8, 1949 New York, United States1923, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 19491924Hans SpemannJune 27, 1869 Stuttgart, Kingdom of WürttembergSeptember 9, 1941 near Freiburg, Nazi Germany1924, 1925, 1926, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936Won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineVictor BabeșJuly 28, 1854 Vienna, Austrian EmpireOctober 19, 1926 Bucharest, Romania1914, 1924Friedrich MartiusSeptember 7, 1850 Erxleben, Börde, Kingdom of Prussia, German ConfederationOctober 1, 1923 Rostock, Weimar Germany1924Nominated posthumously by H.Curschmann the only timeThomas IonnescoSeptember 13, 1860 Ploiești, Romania, Ottoman EmpireMarch 28, 1926 Bucharest, Romania1924Ernst FreundDecember 15, 1863 Vienna, Austrian EmpireJune 2, 1946 London, England1924Nominated by D.R.Werner the only timeHermann Philipp Rudolf StieveMay 22, 1886 Munich, Kingdom of BavariaSeptember 6, 1952 West Berlin, Germany1924Nominated by W.Lubosch the only timeArturo DonaggioOctober 11, 1868 Falconara Marittima, Kingdom of ItalyOctober 8, 1942 Bologna, Kingdom of Italy1924, 1925Friedrich Karl KleineMay 14, 1869 Stralsund, Kingdom of Prussia, North German ConfederationMarch 22, 1951 Johannesburg, Union of South Africa1911, 1924, 1926Martin HeidenhainDecember 7, 1864