| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1928 |
| Number: | 11 - 0 |
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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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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Robert W Wood |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1868 |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | James Franck |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1882 |
| Year, Death: | 1964 |
| Profession: | previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1925 |
| University: | University of Göttingen |
| City: | Göttingen |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
First choice: W. Gerlach and O. Stern, divided.
Second choice: R.W. Wood.
Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. |
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