| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1946 |
| Number: | 24 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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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 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Fritz Strassmann |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1902 |
| Profession: | prof |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Hans Albrecht Bethe |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1906 |
| Year, Death: | 2005 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Cornell University |
| City: | Ithaca |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Jean V Thibaud |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| City: | Lyon |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| Comments: | First choice: O. Hahn and F. Strassmann, undivided. Second choice: H. Bethe and G. Gamow (see entry 24-2, 1946), undivided. Third choice: H. Yukawa (see entry 24-2, 1946). Fourth choice: M. de Broglie (see entry 24-2, 1946). Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945. |