Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1918
Number:9 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Max K Planck
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1858
Year, Death:1947
University:Berlin
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1918
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Albert Einstein
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1879
Year, Death:1955
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institute) for Physics
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Hendrik A Lorentz
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1853
Year, Death:1928
University:Leiden University
City:Leiden
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1902
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Wilhelm Wien
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Year, Death:1928
Profession:member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, NP phy 1911
University:Würzburg
City:Würzburg
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: First choice: M. Planck. Second choice: A. Einstein and H.A. Lorentz, divided. Planck received the 1918 prize in physics in 1919. Einstein received the 1921 prize in physics in 1922.
 

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