| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1965 | 
| Number: | 88 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Clyde Lorrain   Cowan, Jr | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1919 | 
| Year, Death: | 1974 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Bethesda | 
| State: | MD | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Frederick  Reines | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1918 | 
| Year, Death: | 1998 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Los Alamos | 
| State: | NM | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Hannes  Alfvén | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1908 | 
| Year, Death: | 1995 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| University: | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 
| City: | Stockholm | 
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Einar  Lindholm | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1913 | 
| Year, Death: | 1990 | 
| Profession: | Physicist | 
| City: | Stockholm | 
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) | 
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| Comments: | First choice: The prize to be shared between C.L. Cowan and F. Reines. Second choice: H. Alfvén. | 
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