Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1929
Number:17 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
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
 
Nominee 2:
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
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Emil Warburg
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1846
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
 
Nominator:
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)
 
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.