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Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1955, by J van Staveren
- Physics 1955, by Max Born
- Physics 1956, by E Justi
- Physics 1956, by M Kohler
- Physics 1956, by Harold Clayton Urey
- Physics 1956, by Karl Johann Freudenberg
- Physics 1956, by Gerhart Wolfgang Rathenau
- Physics 1956, by James Franck
- Physics 1957, by James Franck
- Physics 1957, by Karl Johann Freudenberg
- Physics 1958, by James Franck
- Physics 1958, by Eugene Wigner
- Physics 1959, by Karl Johann Freudenberg
- Physics 1959, by Max Born
- Physics 1960, by B Flowers
- Physics 1960, by Emilio Gino Segrè
- Physics 1960, by Harold Clayton Urey
- Physics 1960, by Karl Johann Freudenberg
- Physics 1962, by James Franck
- Physics 1962, by M Kohler
- Physics 1962, by Willard Frank Libby
- Physics 1962, by Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
- Physics 1962, by Torsten Gustafson
- Physics 1962, by Lamek Hulthén
- Physics 1963, by Amos de-Shalit
- Physics 1963, by Torsten Gustafson
- Chemistry 1958, by Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr
Submitted nominations for the Nobel Prize in
- Physics 1966, nominee: Bernd Theodor Matthias
- Physics 1967, nominee: Bernd Theodor Matthias
- Physics 1970, nominee: Bernd Theodor Matthias
- Chemistry 1966, nominee: Lars Onsager
- Chemistry 1967, nominee: Lars Onsager
- Chemistry 1970, nominee: Martin David Kamen
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