| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year: | 1937 |
| Number: | 11 - 3 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Enrico Fermi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1901 |
| Year, Death: | 1954 |
| University: | Rome |
| City: | Rome |
| Country: | ITALY (IT) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Walter Gerlach |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1889 |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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Nominee 3:
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| 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 |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Anton von Eiselsberg |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
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| Comments: |
First choice: A. Sommerfeld alone. A.L. Loomis and R.W. Wood, divided. (see entry 11-1, 1937).
Second choice: W. Pauli alone. C.J. Davisson and L.H. Germer, divided. (see entry 11-2 1937).
Third choice: E. Fermi alone. W. Gerlach and O. Stern, divided.
Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. |
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