| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 20 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Hideki Yukawa |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1907 |
| Year, Death: | 1981 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Kyoto Imperial University |
| City: | Kyoto |
| Country: | JAPAN (JP) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1949 |
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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: | Dirk Coster |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| City: | Groningen |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
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| Comments: |
First choice: H. Yukawa.
Second choice: O. Hahn and L. Meitner.
Third choice: W.J. de Haas and W.H. Keesom (see entry 20-2, 1940).
Fourth choice: W. Pauli (see entry 20-2, 1940).
Fifth choice: O. Stern and W. Gerlach (see entry 20-3, 1940).
Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945.
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