Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics
Year:1918
Number:2 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
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
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Albert Einstein
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1879
Year, Death:1955
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institute) for Physics
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Stefan Meyer
Gender:M
Profession:chairholder at invited university
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: First choice: M. Planck. Second choice: A. Einstein. Third choice: N. Bohr and A. Sommerfeld, divided (see entry 2-2, 1918). Planck received the 1918 prize in physics in 1919. Einstein received the 1921 prize in physics in 1922.