| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 20 - 3 |
| 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 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Walter Gerlach |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1889 |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Munich |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| 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 (see entry 20-2, 1940). Fourth choice: W. Pauli (see entry 20-2, 1940). Fifth choice: O. Stern and W. Gerlach. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. |