| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1962 |
| Number: | 71 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| Name: | Ali Javan |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1926 |
| Profession: | Dr |
| City: | Murray Hill |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 6: |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
