| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1919 | 
| Number: | 6 - 1 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Max K Planck | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1858 | 
| Year, Death: | 1947 | 
| University: | Berlin | 
| City: | Berlin | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Arnold  Sommerfeld | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1868 | 
| Year, Death: | 1951 | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Max  von Laue | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1879 | 
| Year, Death: | 1960 | 
| Profession: | previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1914 | 
| University: | Frankfurt am Main | 
| City: | Frankfurt am Main | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: M. Planck.
Second choice: M. Planck and A. Sommerfeld, undivided.
Third choice: A. Einstein and H.A. Lorentz, divided (see entry 6-2, 1919).
Planck received the 1918 prize in physics in 1919. | 
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