| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1919 | 
| Number: | 6 - 2 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Albert  Einstein | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1879 | 
| Year, Death: | 1955 | 
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institute) for Physics | 
| City: | Berlin | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Hendrik A Lorentz | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1853 | 
| Year, Death: | 1928 | 
| University: | Leiden University | 
| City: | Leiden | 
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1902 | 
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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 (see entry 6-1, 1919).
Second choice: M. Planck and A. Sommerfeld, undivided (see entry 6-1, 1919).
Third choice: A. Einstein and H.A. Lorentz, divided.
Einstein received the 1921 prize in physics in 1922. | 
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