| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1947 | 
| Number: | 17 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Karl-Friedrich  Bonhoeffer | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1899 | 
| Year, Death: | 1957 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| City: | Leipzig | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Klaus  Clusius | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1903 | 
| Year, Death: | 1963 | 
| Profession: | prof | 
| City: | Munich | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Werner Karl  Heisenberg | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1901 | 
| Year, Death: | 1976 | 
| Profession: | previous winner of a NP in physics,  1932 | 
| City: | Göttingen | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: K.F. Bonhoeffer.
Second choice: K. Clusius. | 
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