| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1956 |
| Number: | 49 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Samuel Jackson Barnett |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1956 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | Los Angeles |
| City: | Pasadena |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Samuel Abraham Goudsmit |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1902 |
| Year, Death: | 1978 |
| Profession: | Dr |
| University: | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| City: | Brookhaven |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | George Eugene Uhlenbeck |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1900 |
| Year, Death: | 1988 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | University of Michigan |
| City: | Ann Arbor |
| State: | MI |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Glenn Theodore Seaborg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1912 |
| Year, Death: | 1999 |
| City: | Berkeley |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |