| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1933 |
| Number: | 18 - 1 |
| Nominee 1: |
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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 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Friedrich Paschen |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1865 |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominee 3: |
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| Name: | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1868 |
| Year, Death: | 1951 |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | James Franck |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1882 |
| Year, Death: | 1964 |
| Profession: | previous winner of a Nobel prize in physics, 1925 |
| University: | University of Göttingen |
| City: | Göttingen |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Comments: | First choice: O. Stern. Second choice: F. Paschen and A. Sommerfeld, divided. Third choice: R.W. Wood (see entry 18-2, 1933). Fourth choice: P. Debye (see entry 18-2, 1933). Fifth choice: W. Heisenberg and E. Schrödinger, divided (see entry 18-3, 1933). Stern received the 1943 prize in physics in 1944. |