| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Number: | 120 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Antony Hewish |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1924 |
| Year, Death: | 2021 |
| Profession: | Radio astronomer |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| City: | Cambridge |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Abdus Salam |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1926 |
| Year, Death: | 1996 |
| Profession: | Theoretical physicist |
| University: | The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) |
| City: | Trieste |
| Country: | ITALY (IT) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Robert Hofstadter |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1915 |
| Year, Death: | 1990 |
| Profession: | Chemist |
| University: | Stanford University |
| City: | Stanford |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 |
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| Comments: |
The prize to be shared between A. Hewish and A. Salam. |
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