| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1957 | 
| Number: | 57 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Aleksei A Naumov | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1916 | 
| Year, Death: | 1986 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Gersh J Budker | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1918 | 
| Year, Death: | 1977 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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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 4: 
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| Name: | Clyde Lorrain   Cowan, Jr | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1919 | 
| Year, Death: | 1974 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Los Alamos | 
| State: | NM | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 5: 
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| Name: | Frederick  Reines | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1918 | 
| Year, Death: | 1998 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| City: | Los Alamos | 
| State: | NM | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 6: 
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| Name: | Emilio Gino  Segrè | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1905 | 
| Year, Death: | 1989 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | Radiation Laboratory | 
| City: | Berkeley | 
| State: | CA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Leopold  Ruzicka | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1887 | 
| Year, Death: | 1976 | 
| City: | Zurich | 
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: A Naumov sharing prize with G J Budker and Vladimir Veksler.
Second choice: C L Cowan Jr sharing prize with F Reines.
Third choice: Emilio Segrè. | 
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