| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1931 | 
| Number: | 13 - 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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| 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: | The nomination was divided between W. Gerlach and O. Stern.
Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. | 
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