| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 19 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Otto Stern |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1969 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| City: | Pittsburgh |
| State: | PA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 |
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Nominee 2:
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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 |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Lise Meitner |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | James Franck |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1882 |
| Year, Death: | 1964 |
| Profession: | previous winner of a NP in physics, 1925 |
| City: | Chicago |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 |
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| Comments: |
First choice: O. Stern.
Second choice: O. Hahn and L. Meitner, divided.
Third choice: W.J. de Haas and W.F. Giauque, divided (see entry 19-2, 1940).
Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.
Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945. |
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