Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1937
Number:21 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Enrico Fermi
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1901
Year, Death:1954
University:Rome
City:Rome
Country:ITALY (IT)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Otto Hahn
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1879
Year, Death:1968
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Chemie
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Lise Meitner
Gender:F
Year, Birth:1878
Year, Death:1968
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Werner Karl Heisenberg
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1901
Year, Death:1976
Profession:previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1932
University:Leipzig University
City:Leipzig
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Comments: First choice: E. Fermi alone. O. Hahn and L. Meitner, divided. Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945.