Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1929
Number:17 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
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
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Robert W Wood
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1868
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:James Franck
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1882
Year, Death:1964
Profession:previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1925
University:University of Göttingen
City:Göttingen
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: First choice: O. Stern and R.W. Wood, divided. Second choice: F. Paschen and A. Sommerfeld, divided (see entry 17-2, 1929). Third choice: L. de Broglie and C.J. Davisson, divided (see entry 17-3, 1929). Fourth choice: E. Warburg (see entry 17-3, 1929). Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.