| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Number: | 49 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Glenn Theodore Seaborg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1912 |
| Year, Death: | 1999 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | University of California |
| City: | Berkeley |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Joseph W Kennedy |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1916 |
| University: | University of California |
| City: | Berkeley |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Harold Clayton Urey |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1893 |
| Year, Death: | 1981 |
| Profession: | prof, NP che 1934 |
| University: | University of Chicago |
| City: | Chicago |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 | |
| Comments: | First choice: G.T. Seaborg and J. Kennedy. Second choice: K. Clusius, possibly divided with G. Dickel (see entry 49-2, 1948). Third choice: L. Pauling (see entry 49-2, 1948). |