1939

Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1939 Gerhard Domagk Nominated on 9 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 2 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Gerhard Domagk – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka Nominated on 22 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 42 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Leopold Ruzicka – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka Nominated on 18 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 17 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Adolf Butenandt – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Nominations

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 Ernest Lawrence Nominated on 17 occasions for the Nobel Prize in Submitted 2 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in   To cite this pageMLA style: “Ernest Lawrence – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

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Award ceremony speech

  The following account of Lawrence’s work is by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of In 1919 discovered that nitrogen can be brought to emit protons by bombardment with alpha particles, according to the nuclearreaction equation: This discovery meant the initiation of a new era in natural sciences. However, as long…

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Summary

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Biographical

Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was born on October 30, 1895, at Lagow, a beautiful, small town in the Brandenburg Marches. Until he was fourteen he went to school in Sommerfeld, where his father was assistant headmaster. His mother, Martha Reimer, came from farming stock in the Marches, where she lived in Sommerfeld until 1945 when…

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