| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 20 - 2 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Wander J de Haas |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Leiden |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Willem H Keesom |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1876 |
| Year, Death: | 1956 |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Leiden |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Wolfgang Pauli |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1900 |
| Year, Death: | 1958 |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Dirk Coster |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| City: | Groningen |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
| Comments: | First choice: H. Yukawa (see entry 20-1, 1940). Second choice: O. Hahn and L. Meitner (see entry 20-1, 1940). Third choice: W.J. de Haas and W.H. Keesom. Fourth choice: W. Pauli. Fifth choice: O. Stern and W. Gerlach (see entry 20-3, 1940). |