| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | 
| Year: | 1912 | 
| Number: | 21 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| 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 | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Joseph J Thomson | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1856 | 
| Year, Death: | 1940 | 
| University: | University of Cambridge | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Friedrich  Neesen | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university | 
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) | 
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| Comments: | Planck received the 1918 prize in physics in 1919.
Joseph Thomson was knighted in 1908 - Sir Joseph Thomson. | 
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