| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1956 | 
| Number: | 64 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Pyotr Leonidovich  Kapitsa | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1894 | 
| Year, Death: | 1984 | 
| Profession: | Academic | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Cornelis Jacobus   Gorter | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1980 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | Leiden University | 
| City: | Leiden | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Francis E Simon | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1893 | 
| Year, Death: | 1956 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | University of Oxford | 
| City: | Oxford | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Max  Born | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1882 | 
| Year, Death: | 1970 | 
| City: | Bad Pyrmont | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 | 
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