Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1940
Number:20 - 2
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Wander J de Haas
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1878
Profession:prof
City:Leiden
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Willem H Keesom
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1876
Year, Death:1956
Profession:prof
City:Leiden
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Wolfgang Pauli
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1900
Year, Death:1958
Profession:prof
City:Zurich
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Dirk Coster
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
City:Groningen
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
 
Comments: First choice: H. Yukawa (see entry 20-1, 1940). Second choice: O. Hahn and L. Meitner (see entry 20-1, 1940). Third choice: W.J. de Haas and W.H. Keesom. Fourth choice: W. Pauli. Fifth choice: O. Stern and W. Gerlach (see entry 20-3, 1940).