| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Number: | 48 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Donald William Kerst |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1911 |
| Year, Death: | 1993 |
| City: | Champaign |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Hideki Yukawa |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1907 |
| Year, Death: | 1981 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | Kyoto Imperial University |
| City: | Kyoto |
| Country: | JAPAN (JP) |
| University: | Columbia University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1949 | |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Jabez Curry Street |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1906 |
| Year, Death: | 1989 |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Peter G Kruger |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| City: | Urbana |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Comments: | First choice: D.W. Kerst. Second choice: H. Yukawa, J.C. Street, E.C. Stevenson (see entry 48-2, 1949), S.H. Neddermeyer (see entry 48-2, 1949) and C.D. Anderson (see entry 48-2, 1949). |