| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1929 | 
| Number: | 8 - 2 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Walter  Gerlach | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1889 | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Otto  Stern | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1888 | 
| Year, Death: | 1969 | 
| University: | Carnegie Institute of Technology | 
| City: | Pittsburgh | 
| State: | PA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Julius  Wagner-Jauregg | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1857 | 
| Year, Death: | 1940 | 
| Profession: | member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, NP med 1927 | 
| University: | Vienna | 
| City: | Vienna | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: E. Schrödinger (see entry 8-1, 1929).
Second choice: L. de Broglie (see entry 8-1, 1929).
Third choice: W. Gerlach and O. Stern, divided.
Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. | 
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