Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1929
Number:14 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
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
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Walter Gerlach
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Karl Przibram
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: First choice: O. Stern and W. Gerlach, divided. Second choice: L. de Broglie, E. Schrödinger and A. Sommerfeld, divided (see entry 14-2, 1929) Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.