| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Year: | 1956 |
| Number: | 57 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1897 |
| Year, Death: | 1967 |
| Profession: | Professor |
| City: | Oxford |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1896 |
| Year, Death: | 1986 |
| Profession: | Academic |
| City: | Moscow |
| Country: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Lars Gunnar Sillén |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1916 |
| Year, Death: | 1970 |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |