Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1909
Number:19 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Oliver Heaviside
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1850
Year, Death:1925
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:John H Poynting
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1852
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Wilhelm Wien
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Year, Death:1928
University:Würzburg
City:Würzburg
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1911
 
Motivation:
 
Nominator:
Name:Vilhelm Bjerknes
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1862
Year, Death:1951
Profession:member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Country:NORWAY (NO)
 
Comments: First choice: O. Heaviside. Second choice: O. Heaviside and J.H. Poynting, divided. Third choice: W. Wien. Fourth choice: W. Wien and M. Planck (see entry 19-2, 1909), divided.
 

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