| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1940 |
| Number: | 16 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Otto Stern |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1888 |
| Year, Death: | 1969 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| City: | Pittsburgh |
| State: | PA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Isidor I Rabi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1898 |
| Year, Death: | 1988 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Columbia University |
| City: | New York |
| State: | NY |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1944 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Albert Einstein |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1879 |
| Year, Death: | 1955 |
| Profession: | prof, NP phy 1921 |
| University: | Princeton University |
| City: | Princeton |
| State: | NJ |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
| Comments: | The nomination was divided between O. Stern and I.I. Rabi. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. The nomination was made jointly by professors A. Einstein, R. Ladenburg, H.P. Robertson, A.G. Shenstone, H.D. Smyth and E.P. Wigner, all in Princeton, US, NJ. |