Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1962
Number:71 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Joseph Weber
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1919
Year, Death:2002
Profession:Dr
University:University of Maryland
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Charles Hard Townes
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1915
Year, Death:2015
Profession:Dr
University:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Theodore H Maiman
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1927
Year, Death:2007
Profession:Dr
University:Hughes Research Laboratory
City:Malibu
State:CA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 4:
Name:Nicolaas Bloembergen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1920
Year, Death:2017
Profession:Professor
University:Harvard University
City:Cambridge
State:MA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 5:
Name:Ali Javan
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1926
Year, Death:2016
Profession:Dr
City:Murray Hill
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 6:
Name:Nicolay Gennadijevitj Basov
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1922
Year, Death:2001
Profession:Professor
City:Moscow
Country:RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964
 
Nominee 7:
Name:Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov [Prockorov]
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1916
Year, Death:2002
Profession:Professor
City:Moscow
Country:RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Erik Paul Gerhard Ingelstam
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1909
Year, Death:1988
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Comments: The prize to be shared between J. Weber, Ch.H. Townes, T.H. Maiman and possibly N. Bloemberger. Charles Hard Townes: Several letters claim Columbia University, however the Academy lists him as stationed on MIT.