| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 
| Year: | 1915 | 
| Number: | 5 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Walther H Nernst | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1864 | 
| Year, Death: | 1941 | 
| University: | Berlin | 
| City: | Berlin | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Richard M Willstätter | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1872 | 
| Year, Death: | 1942 | 
| University: | University of Munich | 
| City: | Munich | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Carl  Harries | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1866 | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Ernst  Beckmann | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Comments: | First choice: W.H. Nernst.
Second choice: R.M. Willstätter.
Third choice: C. Harries.
Nernst received the 1920 prize in chemistry in 1921. | 
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