| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1956 |
| Number: | 68 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1907 |
| Year, Death: | 1966 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Moscow |
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Edwin Mattison McMillan |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1907 |
| Year, Death: | 1991 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Berkeley |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Richard Phillips Feynman |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1918 |
| Year, Death: | 1988 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | California Institute of Technology |
| City: | Pasadena |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 |
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Nominee 4:
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| Name: | Julian Schwinger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1918 |
| Year, Death: | 1994 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Ch. C Lauritsen |
| City: | Pasadena |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Comments: |
First choice: Vladimir Veksler sharing prize with Edwin M McMillan.
Second choice: R P Feynman sharing prize with Julian Schwinger. |
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