Werner Heisenberg
Nominations
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Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1928, by Erwin Meyer
- Physics 1929, by Hans Thirring
- Physics 1929, by Enrico Fermi
- Physics 1929, by Friedrich Kottler
- Physics 1930, by Peter Pringsheim
- Physics 1930, by Yakov (Jacov) Frenkel
- Physics 1930, by Hantaro Nagaoka
- Physics 1930, by Jean Perrin
- Physics 1930, by Max Planck
- Physics 1930, by Theodor Svedberg
- Physics 1931, by Wilhelm Lenz
- Physics 1931, by Niels Bohr
- Physics 1932, by Erich Hückel
- Physics 1932, by Wolfgang Pauli
- Physics 1932, by Gregor Wentzel
- Physics 1932, by Niels Bohr
- Physics 1932, by David Enskog
- Physics 1932, by Oskar Benjamin Klein
- Physics 1932, by Albert Einstein
- Physics 1933, by James Franck
- Physics 1933, by Sir William Lawrence Bragg
- Physics 1933, by Czeslaw Bialobrzeski
- Physics 1933, by Orso Corbino
- Physics 1933, by Enrico Fermi
- Physics 1933, by Niels Bohr
- Physics 1933, by Paul Drumaux
- Physics 1933, by David Enskog
- Physics 1933, by Carl Oseen
- Physics 1933, by George Joos
- Physics 1969, by Pal Gombas
Submitted nominations for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1932, nominee: Otto Stern
- Physics 1935, nominee: Frédéric Joliot
- Physics 1936, nominee: Enrico Fermi
- Physics 1937, nominee: Enrico Fermi
- Physics 1947, nominee: Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
- Physics 1949, nominee: Klaus Clusius
- Physics 1950, nominee: Cecil Frank Powell
- Physics 1951, nominee: Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr
- Physics 1952, nominee: Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr
- Physics 1955, nominee: Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr
- Physics 1958, nominee: Hans Albrecht Bethe
- Physics 1959, nominee: Lev Davidovich Landau
- Physics 1960, nominee: Lev Davidovich Landau
- Physics 1961, nominee: Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
- Physics 1962, nominee: Lev Davidovich Landau
- Physics 1964, nominee: Hans Albrecht Bethe
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