| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1907 | 
| Number: | 4 - 2 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Albert A Michelson | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1852 | 
| Year, Death: | 1931 | 
| University: | University of Chicago | 
| City: | Chicago | 
| State: | IL | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Augusto  Righi | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1850 | 
| Country: | ITALY (IT) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Ernest  Lord Rutherford | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1871 | 
| Year, Death: | 1937 | 
| University: | Victoria University of Manchester | 
| City: | Manchester | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Hermann  Ebert | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | specially invited individual | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Comments: | First choice: W. Thomson, undivided. J. Elster and H. Geitel, divided (see entry 4-1, 1907).
Second choice: A.A. Michelson, A. Righi and E. Rutherford, divided. | 
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