| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1937 |
| Number: | 21 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Enrico Fermi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1901 |
| Year, Death: | 1954 |
| University: | Rome |
| City: | Rome |
| Country: | ITALY (IT) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Otto Hahn |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1879 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Chemie |
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 | |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Lise Meitner |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Werner Heisenberg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1901 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1932 |
| University: | Leipzig University |
| City: | Leipzig |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Comments: | First choice: E. Fermi alone. O. Hahn and L. Meitner, divided. Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945. |
