| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 15 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Otto Hahn |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1879 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Chemie |
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Lise Meitner |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Arthur H Compton |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1892 |
| Year, Death: | 1962 |
| Profession: | previous winner of a NP in physics, 1927 |
| University: | University of Chicago |
| City: | Chicago |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Comments: | The nomination was divided between O. Hahn and L. Meitner. Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945. |
