Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1937
Number:12 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Enrico Fermi
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1901
Year, Death:1954
University:Rome
City:Rome
Country:ITALY (IT)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Walter Gerlach
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
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
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Stefan Meyer
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: First choice: A. Sommerfeld alone. A.L. Loomis and R.W. Wood, divided. (see entry 12-1, 1937). Second choice: W. Pauli alone. C.J. Davisson and L.H. Germer, divided. (see entry 12-2, 1937). Third choice: E. Fermi alone. W. Gerlach and O. Stern, divided. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.