| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1934 |
| Number: | 8 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Clinton J Davisson |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1881 |
| Year, Death: | 1958 |
| University: | Bell Telephone Laboratories |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Lester Halbert Germer |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1896 |
| Year, Death: | 1971 |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Carl D Anderson |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1905 |
| Year, Death: | 1991 |
| University: | California Institute of Technology |
| City: | Pasadena |
| State: | CA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Hans Thirring |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
| Comments: | First choice: C.J. Davisson and L.H. Germer, divided. Second choice: C.D. Anderson, J. Chadwick, W. Gerlach, F. Joliot (see entry 8-2,1934), I. Joliot-Curie, A. Sommerfeld and O. Stern (see entry 8-3, 1934), divided. |