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." The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943, announced November 9, 1944. Otto Stern, “for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton”. Otto Stern: born 1888, Sorau, Germany (now Zory, Poland). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).