Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1956
Number:66 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Samuel Abraham Goudsmit
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1902
Year, Death:1978
Profession:Dr
University:Brookhaven National Laboratory
City:Brookhaven
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:George Eugene Uhlenbeck
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1900
Year, Death:1988
Profession:Professor
University:University of Michigan
City:Ann Arbor
State:MI
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Gender:F
Year, Birth:1906
Year, Death:1972
Profession:Professor
University:University of Chicago
City:Chicago
State:IL
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
 
Nominee 4:
Name:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1907
Year, Death:1973
Profession:Dr
University:Heidelberg University
City:Heidelberg
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Gerhart Wolfgang Rathenau
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1911
Year, Death:1989
City:Amsterdam
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
 
Comments: First choice: Samuel A Goudsmit sharing prize with George E Uhlenbeck, second choice: Maria Goeppert-Mayer sharing prize with J H D Jensen. Letter also states "Argonne National Lab." for Maria Goeppert-Mayer.