| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1929 | 
| Number: | 17 - 3 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Prince Louis-Victor  de Broglie | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1892 | 
| Year, Death: | 1987 | 
| University: | Sorbonne | 
| City: | Paris | 
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) | 
| University: | Institut Henri Poincaré | 
| City: | Paris | 
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 | 
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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: | Emil  Warburg | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1846 | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | James  Franck | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1882 | 
| Year, Death: | 1964 | 
| Profession: | previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1925 | 
| University: | University of Göttingen | 
| City: | Göttingen | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 | 
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| Comments: | First choice: O. Stern and R.W. Wood, divided (see entry 17-1, 1929).
Second choice: F. Paschen and A. Sommerfeld, divided (see entry 17-2, 1929).
Third choice: L. de Broglie and C.J. Davisson, divided.
Fourth choice: E. Warburg. | 
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