Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
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German-American physicist who racked up 82 Nobel Prize nominations between 1925 and 1945 before finally winning in 1943 for his work on molecular rays and the proton's magnetic moment.
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Otto Stern was a German–American experimental physicist. He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations during the years 1925–1945. In 1943, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."
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