| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 
| Year: | 1961 | 
| Number: | 69 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Walter  Reppe | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1892 | 
| Year, Death: | 1969 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| City: | Ludwigshafen am Rhein | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Karl W Ziegler | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1898 | 
| Year, Death: | 1973 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| University: | Max Planck Institut | 
| City: | Mülheim (Mülheim an der Ruhr) | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Max Ferdinand  Perutz | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1914 | 
| Year, Death: | 2002 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| University: | Cavendish Laboratory | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Adolf F Butenandt | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1903 | 
| Year, Death: | 1995 | 
| City: | Munich | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: Walter Reppe sharing prize with Karl Ziegler.
Second choice: Max F Perutz. | 
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