| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Year: | 1933 |
| Number: | 18 - 3 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Werner Karl Heisenberg |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1901 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| University: | Leipzig University |
| City: | Leipzig |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Erwin Schrödinger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1887 |
| Year, Death: | 1961 |
| University: | Berlin |
| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 | |
| 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 (see entry 18-1, 1933). Second choice: F. Paschen and A. Sommerfeld, divided (see entry 18-1, 1933). 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. Heisenberg received the 1932 prize in physics in 1933. |