| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1930 | 
| Number: | 2 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Arnold  Sommerfeld | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1868 | 
| Year, Death: | 1951 | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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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 | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Ira S Bowen | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1898 | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Robert A Millikan | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1868 | 
| Year, Death: | 1953 | 
| Profession: | previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1923 | 
| University: | California Institute of Technology | 
| City: | Pasadena | 
| State: | CA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: A. Sommerfeld.
Second choice: C.J. Davisson.
Third choice: I.S. Bowen. | 
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