Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1934
Number:6 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Irène Joliot-Curie
Gender:F
Year, Birth:1897
Year, Death:1956
University:Radium Institute (Institut du Radium)
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Arnold Sommerfeld
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1868
Year, Death:1951
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Otto Stern
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1888
Year, Death:1969
University:Carnegie Institute of Technology
City:Pittsburgh
State:PA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Stefan Meyer
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: First choice: C.J. Davisson and L.H. Germer (see entry 6-1, 1934), divided. Second choice: C.D. Anderson (see entry 6-1, 1934), J. Chadwick, W. Gerlach, F. Joliot (see entry 6-2, 1934), I. Joliot-Curie, A. Sommerfeld and O. Stern, divided. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.