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The Nobel Awards Committee for Physics made its final recommendation on 23 September 1933. Rumours on the decision then started to spread. The recommendation from the committee needed to be approved at the meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences before any official announcement could be made. Finally, on 9 November 1933, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had met and decided formally to award the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics to Werner Heisenberg "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen" and the 1933 Prize jointly to Erwin Schrodinger and Paul Dirac for "the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".

Since the announcement, there was only one month before the presentation of the award in Stockholm. Therefore, much urgent preparation was needed. This included buying clothes, preparing lectures and booking tickets. Meanwhile on November 18 did the promised confirmatory letter from Henning Pleijel, the Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science arrive. He stated :

I have herewith the honour to confirm my telegram by informing you that the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in its meeting of November 9th has decided on this year's Nobel Prize for Physics being awarded to you together with Professor Paul Dirac as a reward for the discovery of new fertile forms of the atomic theory.

On behalf of the Academy I also have the honour to invite you to the solemnity to be held at Stockholm on the anniversary of the decease of Alfred Nobel (10th of December), where the amount of the prize as well as the diploma and the medal in gold will be handed over to you. Immediately after the festival a banquet will follow at Grand Hotel Royal in this town.

If on your presumptive visit to Sweden you should be accompanied by a friend or by members of your family, they of course are also included in that invitation. In this case you would oblige me very much by informing me kindly of their names in order that cards may be duly issued to them.

I also would be very much obliged to you if you would let me know, as soon as possible, whether you intend to give, on this occasion, the lecture which is incumbent on each Prize winner within six months of the Founder's day at which the prize was won, and what your wishes may be with regard to that lecture which has to treat the subject to which the prize has been awarded.

Finally, as I presume that you will arrive in Stockholm some day before the 10th and that it could be of some interest to you to become acquainted, before the festival, with some of the leading persons in our Academy, Mrs Pleijel and I would feel really honoured if you would partake together with some scientists of this town in a quiet dinner at our home in the Academy at the 9th of December (Saturday evening).

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== Wave Mechanics ==