Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1933
Number:18 - 3
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Werner Karl Heisenberg
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1901
Year, Death:1976
University:Leipzig University
City:Leipzig
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Erwin Schrödinger
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1887
Year, Death:1961
University:Berlin
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
 
 
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 (see entry 18-1, 1933). Second choice: F. Paschen and A. Sommerfeld, divided (see entry 18-1, 1933). Third choice: R.W. Wood (see entry 18-2, 1933). Fourth choice: P. Debye (see entry 18-2, 1933). Fifth choice: W. Heisenberg and E. Schrödinger, divided. Heisenberg received the 1932 prize in physics in 1933.