Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1933
Number:18 - 2
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Robert W Wood
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1868
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Petrus J Debye
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1884
Year, Death:1966
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institute) for Physics
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936
 
 
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: O. Stern (see entry 18-1, 1933). Second choice: F. Paschen and A. Sommerfeld, divided (see entry 18-1, 1933). Third choice: R.W. Wood. Fourth choice: P. Debye. Fifth choice: W. Heisenberg and E. Schrödinger, divided (see entry 18-3, 1933).
 

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