Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1946
Number:24 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Otto Hahn
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1879
Year, Death:1968
Profession:prof
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Chemie
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Fritz Strassmann
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1902
Profession:prof
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Hans Albrecht Bethe
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1906
Year, Death:2005
Profession:prof
University:Cornell University
City:Ithaca
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1967
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Jean V Thibaud
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
City:Lyon
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Comments: First choice: O. Hahn and F. Strassmann, undivided. Second choice: H. Bethe and G. Gamow (see entry 24-2, 1946), undivided. Third choice: H. Yukawa (see entry 24-2, 1946). Fourth choice: M. de Broglie (see entry 24-2, 1946). Hahn received the 1944 prize in chemistry in 1945.