| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1910 |
| Number: | 20 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Johannes D van der Waals |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1837 |
| Year, Death: | 1923 |
| University: | University of Amsterdam |
| City: | Amsterdam |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Max K Planck |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1858 |
| Year, Death: | 1947 |
| University: | Berlin |
| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Theodore W Richards |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1868 |
| Year, Death: | 1928 |
| Profession: | member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, NP che 1914 |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Comments: | First choice: J.D. van der Waals. Second choice: M. Planck. Planck received the 1918 prize in physics in 1919. |
