| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1960 | 
| Number: | 62 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Lev Davidovich  Landau | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1908 | 
| Year, Death: | 1968 | 
| Profession: | Academic | 
| University: | Duke University | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Nikolai Nikolaevic  Bogoljubov | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1909 | 
| Year, Death: | 1992 | 
| Profession: | Academic | 
| University: | Academy of Sciences (Moscow) | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Hannes  Alfvén | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1908 | 
| Year, Death: | 1995 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Stockholm | 
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Michał  Lunc | 
| Gender: | M | 
| City: | Warsaw | 
| Country: | POLAND (PL) | 
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| Comments: | First choice: L D Landau sharing prize with N N Bogoljubov, second choice: Hannes Alfvén. | 
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