Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1918
Number:2 - 2
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Niels Bohr
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1885
Year, Death:1962
University:University of Copenhagen
City:Copenhagen
Country:DENMARK (DK)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Arnold Sommerfeld
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1868
Year, Death:1951
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Stefan Meyer
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: First choice: M. Planck (see entry 2-1, 1918). Second choice: A. Einstein (see entry 2-1, 1918). Third choice: N. Bohr and A. Sommerfeld, divided.
 

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