Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
Year: | 1929 |
Number: | 35 - 1 |
Nominee 1: |
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Name: | Sir Owen W Richardson |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1879 |
Year, Death: | 1959 |
University: | University of London |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 | |
Nominee 2: |
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Name: | Irving Langmuir |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1881 |
Year, Death: | 1957 |
University: | General Electric Co. |
City: | Schenectady |
State: | NY |
Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932 | |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Niels Bohr |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1885 |
Year, Death: | 1962 |
Profession: | member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, NP phy 1922 |
University: | University of Copenhagen |
City: | Copenhagen |
Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
Comments: | First choice: Either O.W. Richardson alone or a division between O.W. Richardson and I. Langmuir. Second choice: Either R.W. Wood alone or a division between R.W. Wood and C.V. Raman (see entry 35-2, 1929). Richardson received the 1928 prize in physics in 1929. |
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