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Nominations
Discover who nominated this laureate for the Nobel Prize, and if the laureate nominated anyone else for the prize.
Use the map to explore which countries the nominations came from, as well as finding out where the nominated person or organisation came from.
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1913, by Wilhelm Wien
- Physics 1919, by Christopher Aurivillius
- Chemistry 1916, by Ivan Plotnikov
- Chemistry 1918, by Hartog Hamburger
- Chemistry 1919, by Axel Hamberg
- Chemistry 1919, by Einar Lönnberg
- Chemistry 1919, by Wilhelm Palmaer
- Chemistry 1919, by Henrik Söderbaum
- Chemistry 1920, by Svante Arrhenius
- Chemistry 1923, by Walther Nernst
- Chemistry 1924, by Svante Arrhenius
- Chemistry 1924, by Adriaan Aten
- Chemistry 1926, by Walther Nernst
Submitted nominations for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1922, nominee: Ernest Lord Rutherford
- Physics 1923, nominee: Ernest Lord Rutherford
- Physics 1930, nominee: Werner Karl Heisenberg
- Physics 1935, nominee: James Chadwick
- Physics 1947, nominee: Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
- Physics 1948, nominee: Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
- Physics 1949, nominee: Hideki Yukawa
- Physics 1950, nominee: Cecil Frank Powell
- Physics 1951, nominee: John Douglas Cockcroft
- Physics 1951, nominee: Edwin Mattison McMillan
- Chemistry 1916, nominee: Walther Nernst
- Chemistry 1921, nominee: Walther Nernst
- Chemistry 1926, nominee: Richard Zsigmondy
- Chemistry 1930, nominee: Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
- Chemistry 1931, nominee: Irving Langmuir
- Chemistry 1934, nominee: Harold Clayton Urey
- Chemistry 1935, nominee: Frédéric Joliot
- Chemistry 1939, nominee: Otto Hahn
- Chemistry 1939, nominee: Wendell Stanley
- Chemistry 1940, nominee: George de Hevesy
- Chemistry 1942, nominee: Wendell Stanley
- Chemistry 1945, nominee: James Sumner
- Chemistry 1946, nominee: James Sumner
- Chemistry 1947, nominee: Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
- Chemistry 1948, nominee: Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
- Chemistry 1949, nominee: William Giauque
- Chemistry 1951, nominee: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Chemistry 1952, nominee: Klaus Clusius
- Chemistry 1954, nominee: Linus Carl Pauling
- Chemistry 1957, nominee: Klaus Clusius
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.
