Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1909
Number:19 - 2
 
Nominee:
Name:Max K Planck
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1858
Year, Death:1947
University:Berlin
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1918
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Vilhelm Bjerknes
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1862
Year, Death:1951
Profession:member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Country:NORWAY (NO)
 
Comments: First choice: O. Heaviside (see entry 19-1, 1909). Second choice: O. Heaviside and J.H. Poynting (see entry 19-1, 1909), divided. Third choice: W. Wien (see entry 19-1, 1909). Fourth choice: W. Wien and M. Planck,divided. Planck received the 1918 prize in physics in 1919.