| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1919 |
| Number: | 6 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| 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: |
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| Name: | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1868 |
| Year, Death: | 1951 |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Max von Laue |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1879 |
| Year, Death: | 1960 |
| Profession: | previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1914 |
| University: | Frankfurt am Main |
| City: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Comments: | First choice: M. Planck. Second choice: M. Planck and A. Sommerfeld, undivided. Third choice: A. Einstein and H.A. Lorentz, divided (see entry 6-2, 1919). Planck received the 1918 prize in physics in 1919. |