Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1939
Number:32 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Petrus J Debye
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1884
Year, Death:1966
Profession:prof
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institute) for Physics
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
City:Berlin-Dahlem
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Paul Scherrer
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1890
Year, Death:1969
Profession:prof
City:Zurich
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Albert W Hull
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1880
Profession:dr
City:Schenectady
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Harald Perlitz
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
City:Dorpat (now Tartu in Estonia)
Country:ESTONIA (EE)
 
Comments: The nomination was divided between P. Debye and P. Scherrer on one hand, and A.W. Hull on the other hand. Tartu, EE, was in the early 20th century also known as Dorpat (esp. in German).