Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Year:1937
Number:21 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Paul Karrer
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1889
Year, Death:1971
University:University of Zurich
City:Zurich
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Richard Kuhn
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1900
Year, Death:1967
University:Heidelberg University
City:Heidelberg
Country:GERMANY (DE)
University:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für medizinische Forschung (now Max-Planck-Institut)
City:Heidelberg
Country:GERMANY (DE)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Anton von Eiselsberg
Gender:M
Profession:member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: The nomination was divided between P. Karrer and R. Kuhn. Kuhn was awarded the 1938 prize in chemistry in 1939. He was forced by the authorities of his country to decline the award but later received the diploma and the medal.