| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1934 |
| Number: | 9 - 2 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Walter Gerlach |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1889 |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Otto Stern |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1969 |
| University: | Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| City: | Pittsburgh |
| State: | PA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 | |
| Motivation: | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Dirk Coster |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
| Comments: | First choice: W. Pauli (see entry 9-1, 1934). Second choice: M. Born (see entry 9-1, 1934). Third choice: A. Sommerfeld (see entry 9-1, 1934). Fourth choice: W. Gerlach and O. Stern, divided. Fifth choice: C.J. Davisson and L.H. Germer (see entry 9-3, 1934), divided. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. |