| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1961 |
| Number: | 49 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | John Bardeen |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1908 |
| Year, Death: | 1991 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Urbana |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Leon Neil Cooper |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1930 |
| Year, Death: | 2024 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Urbana |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | John Robert Schrieffer |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1931 |
| Year, Death: | 2019 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Urbana |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 |
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Nominee 4:
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| Name: | Murray Gell-Mann |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1929 |
| Year, Death: | 2019 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Chicago |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 |
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Nominee 5:
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| Name: | Kazuhiko Nishijima |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1926 |
| Year, Death: | 2009 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Princeton |
| State: | NJ |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 6:
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| Name: | Tadao Nakano |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1926 |
| City: | Princeton |
| State: | NJ |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Frederick Seitz |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1911 |
| Year, Death: | 2008 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Urbana |
| State: | IL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Comments: |
First choice: J Bardeen sharing prize with L N Cooper and J R Schrieffer.
Second choice: M Gell-Mann sharing prize with K Nishijima and T Nakono. |
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