Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1940
Number:20 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Otto Stern
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1888
Year, Death:1969
Profession:prof
University:Carnegie Institute of Technology
City:Pittsburgh
State:PA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Walter Gerlach
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Profession:prof
City:Munich
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
 
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 (see entry 20-2, 1940). Fourth choice: W. Pauli (see entry 20-2, 1940). Fifth choice: O. Stern and W. Gerlach. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.