| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 31 - 0 |
| 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: | Lise Meitner |
| Gender: | F |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Year, Death: | 1968 |
| Profession: | prof |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Theodor Svedberg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1884 |
| Year, Death: | 1971 |
| Profession: | member of the Nobel Committee for chemistry, NP che 1926 |
| University: | Uppsala University |
| City: | Uppsala |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
| Comments: | First choice: Either O. Hahn alone or a division between O. Hahn and L. Meitner. Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945. |
