Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1940
Number:16 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Otto Stern
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1888
Year, Death:1969
Profession:prof
University:Carnegie Institute of Technology
City:Pittsburgh
State:PA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Isidor I Rabi
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1898
Year, Death:1988
Profession:prof
University:Columbia University
City:New York
State:NY
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1944
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Rudolf Ladenburg
Gender:M
University:Princeton University
City:Princeton
State:NJ
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Comments: The nomination was divided between O. Stern and I.I. Rabi. Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. The nomination was made jointly by professors A. Einstein, R. Ladenburg, H.P. Robertson, A.G. Shenstone, H.D. Smyth and E.P. Wigner, all in Princeton, US, NJ.