| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1957 |
| Number: | 40 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1906 |
| Year, Death: | 1979 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | Physics-Institute Tokyo |
| City: | Tokyo |
| Country: | JAPAN (JP) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Julian Schwinger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1918 |
| Year, Death: | 1994 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Helmut Hönl |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1903 |
| Year, Death: | 1981 |
| City: | Freiburg im Breisgau |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Comments: | First choice: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, second choice: Julian Schwinger. |
