Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1928
Number:11 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Walter Gerlach
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 2:
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
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Robert W Wood
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1868
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:James Franck
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1882
Year, Death:1964
Profession:previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1925
University:University of Göttingen
City:Göttingen
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: First choice: W. Gerlach and O. Stern, divided. Second choice: R.W. Wood. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.
 

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