About Otto Stern
Otto Stern was a German-American experimental physical chemist. 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". It was awarded to Stern alone, "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton" (not for the Stern–Gerlach experiment). The Stern-Gerlach-Medaille of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft awarded for excellence in experimental physics is named after him and Gerlach. In 1921, he became a professor at the University of Rostock, which he left in 1923 to become director of the newly founded Institut für Physikalische Chemie at the University of Hamburg. He was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics, the first to be awarded since 1939.
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