Arthur H. Compton
Nominations
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927
Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson
Nominated on 15 occasions for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1925, by Henry Gale
- Physics 1926, by Sir William Lawrence Bragg
- Physics 1926, by Albert Einstein
- Physics 1926, by Charles Fabry
- Physics 1926, by Robert Millikan
- Physics 1926, by Wilhelm Wien
- Physics 1927, by Max Born
- Physics 1927, by James Franck
- Physics 1927, by David Jordan
- Physics 1927, by Max von Laue
- Physics 1927, by Henry Osborn
- Physics 1927, by Max Planck
- Physics 1927, by Robert Wichard Pohl
- Physics 1927, by Charles Walcott
- Physics 1927, by Wilhelm Wien
Submitted 12 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1929, nominee: Clinton Davisson
- Physics 1931, nominee: Clinton Davisson
- Physics 1936, nominee: Carl Anderson, Jacob Clay, Victor Hess
- Physics 1937, nominee: Meghnad Saha
- Physics 1938, nominee: Enrico Fermi
- Physics 1940, nominee: Ernest Lawrence, Meghnad Saha, Otto Stern
- Physics 1940, nominee: Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner
- Physics 1947, nominee: Lise Meitner
- Physics 1948, nominee: Patrick Maynard Blackett (Baron Blackett)
- Physics 1952, nominee: Edward Purcell
- Physics 1958, nominee: Clyde Cowan, Jr, Frederick Reines
- Physics 1961, nominee: Clyde Cowan, Jr, Frederick Reines
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MLA style: “Arthur H. Compton – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.
MLA style: “Arthur H. Compton – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.
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