Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1934
Number:6 - 2
 
Nominee 1:
Name:James Chadwick
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1891
Year, Death:1974
University:University of Liverpool
City:Liverpool
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1935
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Walter Gerlach
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Frédéric Joliot
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1900
Year, Death:1958
University:Radium Institute (Institut du Radium)
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Stefan Meyer
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: First choice: C.J. Davisson and L.H. Germer (see entry 6-1, 1934), divided. Second choice: C.D. Anderson (see entry 6-1, 1934), J. Chadwick, W. Gerlach, F. Joliot, I. Joliot-Curie, A. Sommerfeld and O. Stern (see entry 6-3, 1934), divided.
 

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