Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Year:1936
Number:5 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Adolf F Butenandt
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1903
Year, Death:1995
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biochemie (now Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Leopold Ruzicka
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1887
Year, Death:1976
University:Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Federal Institute of Technology)
City:Zurich
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Samuel Smiles
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Comments: The nomination was divided between A. Butenandt and L. Ruzicka. Butenandt was caused by the authorities of his country to decline the award but later received the diploma and the medal.