| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Number: | 143 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Gregory Breit |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1899 |
| Year, Death: | 1981 |
| Profession: | Physicist |
| City: | Buffalo |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Rudolf Ernst Peierls |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1907 |
| Year, Death: | 1995 |
| Profession: | Physicist |
| University: | Oxford University |
| City: | Oxford |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | John Clark Slater |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1900 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | Physicist |
| University: | University of Florida |
| City: | Gainesville |
| State: | FL |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Victor Frederick Weisskopf |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1908 |
| Year, Death: | 2002 |
| Profession: | Physicist |
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Comments: |
The prize to be shared between G. Breit, R.E. Peierls and J.C. Slater. |
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