| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1959 | 
| Number: | 58 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Johannes Hans Daniel  Jensen | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1973 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | Heidelberg University | 
| City: | Heidelberg | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Maria  Goeppert-Mayer | 
| Gender: | F | 
| Year, Birth: | 1906 | 
| Year, Death: | 1972 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| University: | Enrico-Fermi-Institut | 
| City: | Chicago | 
| State: | IL | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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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 4: 
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| Name: | Cornelis Jacobus   Gorter | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1980 | 
| City: | Leiden | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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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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| Comments: | First choice: J H D Jensen sharing prize with Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
Second choice: Pyotr L Kapitza sharing prize with Cornelius J Gorter. | 
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