| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1965 | 
| Number: | 98 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Pyotr Leonidovich  Kapitsa | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1894 | 
| Year, Death: | 1984 | 
| Profession: | Academic | 
| City: | Moscow | 
| Country: | U.S.S.R. (SU)  now RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Cornelis Jacobus   Gorter | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1980 | 
| City: | Leiden | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Walter Heinrich   Heitler | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1904 | 
| Year, Death: | 1981 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Zurich | 
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) | 
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| Nominee 4: 
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| Name: | Lise  Meitner | 
| Gender: | F | 
| Year, Birth: | 1878 | 
| Year, Death: | 1968 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Max  Born | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1882 | 
| Year, Death: | 1970 | 
| Profession: | Physicist and mathematician | 
| City: | Bad Pyrmont | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: The prize to be shared between P.L. Kapitsa and C.J. Gorter.
Second choice: W. Heitler.
Third prize: Lise Meitner. | 
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