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This paper highlights the evaluation of \u201cshortlisted\u201d candidates, i.e., those candidates who were of particular interest for the members of the Nobel Committee in physiology or medicine. We focus on the US scholar John Jacob Abel (1857\u20131938), repeatedly referred to as the \u201cFounder of American Pharmacology.\u201d Nominated 17 times in both categories, Abel was praised by his nominators for both basic research as well as for his influential positions as editor and his work as chair at Johns Hopkins University. The Abel nominations were evaluated for the Nobel Committee in chemistry by the Swedish professor of chemistry and pharmaceutics Einar Hammarsten (1889\u20131968), particularly interested in Abel\u2019s work on hormones in the adrenal glands and in the pituitary gland. Eventually, Hammarsten did not view Abel\u2019s work prizeworthy, partly because other scholars had done\u2014according to Hammarsten\u2014more important discoveries in the same fields. 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