Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
Year: | 1940 |
Number: | 20 - 2 |
Nominee 1: |
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Name: | Wander J de Haas |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1878 |
Profession: | prof |
City: | Leiden |
Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
Nominee 2: |
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Name: | Willem H Keesom |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1876 |
Year, Death: | 1956 |
Profession: | prof |
City: | Leiden |
Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
Nominee 3: |
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Name: | Wolfgang Pauli |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1900 |
Year, Death: | 1958 |
Profession: | prof |
City: | Zurich |
Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 | |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Dirk Coster |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
City: | Groningen |
Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
Comments: | First choice: H. Yukawa (see entry 20-1, 1940). Second choice: O. Hahn and L. Meitner (see entry 20-1, 1940). Third choice: W.J. de Haas and W.H. Keesom. Fourth choice: W. Pauli. Fifth choice: O. Stern and W. Gerlach (see entry 20-3, 1940). |
Eleven laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2023, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Their work and discoveries range from effective mRNA vaccines and attosecond physics to fighting against the oppression of women.
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