| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1959 | 
| Number: | 56 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Vladimir Iosifovich  Veksler | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1966 | 
| Profession: | Academic | 
| University: | USSR Academy of Sciences | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Yevgeny Konstantinovich  F Zavoisky | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1976 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | Academy of Sciences (Moscow) | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Ilya M Frank | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1908 | 
| Year, Death: | 1990 | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: Vladimir Veksler, second choice: E K Zavoisky. | 
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