| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1971 |
| Number: | 149 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Maarten Schmidt |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1929 |
| Year, Death: | 2022 |
| Profession: | Physicist |
| City: | Pasadena |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | John Archibald Wheeler |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1911 |
| Year, Death: | 2008 |
| Profession: | Theoretical physicist |
| University: | Princeton University |
| City: | Princeton |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1914 |
| Year, Death: | 1987 |
| Profession: | Physicist |
| City: | Moscow |
| Country: | U.S.S.R. (SU) now RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Vladimir Vanysek |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1926 |
| Year, Death: | 1997 |
| Profession: | Professor emeritus of astrophysics |
| University: | Charles University |
| City: | Prague |
| Country: | CZECHOSLOVAKIA (CZ) |
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| Comments: |
The prize to be shared between M. Schmidt, J.A. Wheeler and J.B. Zeldovic. |
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