Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1931
Number:11 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Otto Stern
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1888
Year, Death:1969
University:Carnegie Institute of Technology
City:Pittsburgh
State:PA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Friedrich Paschen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1865
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Arnold Sommerfeld
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1868
Year, Death:1951
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
 
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. Second choice: F. Paschen and A. Sommerfeld, divided. Third choice: R.W. Wood (see entry 11-2, 1931). Fourth choice: P. Debye (see entry 11-2, 1931). Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944.