Nobel Prizes And Laureates

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 - Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870-1942)



Jean Baptiste Perrin a French physicist won Nobel Prize
for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium.

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS was an Indian physicist, born in the former Madras Province, whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Madame Curie has the rare honor of being awarded the Nobel prize twice. First in 1903 jointly with her husband and then again in 1911. As the co-discoverer of radium and radioactivity she was one of the precursors of the atomic age. Stamp issued by India on 6th November 1968.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-1968)



Lev Davidovich Landau was a soviet theoretical physicist, one of the founders of the quantum theory of condensed matter.
He won Nobel Prize for Physics "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium".

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947 - André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951)



André Gide a French writer, humanist, and moralist received the Nobel Prize
"for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems
and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight".

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 - Romain Rolland (1866-1944)



Romain Rolland a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic won the Nobel Prize
"as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production
and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 - Élie Metchnikoff (1845-1916)
................................................................... Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 was awarded jointly to Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich
"in recognition of their work on immunity".



Élie Metchnikoff was russian biologist and pathologist and one of the founders
of evolutionary embryology and creator of the phagocytic theory of immunity.




Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields
of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.
He invented the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria.

This set was issued in 2001 to commemorate 100 years of the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded from Oslo, Norway. Masterly crafted by Sverre Morken and Enzo Finger, using a combination of 3 different engraving/printing techniques. The process took Morken almost 1 year.


Aung San Suu Kyi - fighting for democracy in Myanmar (Burma)


Nelson Mandela - ANC, fighting against apartheid


Alfred Nobel


Henri Dunant - Founder of Red Cross society, awarded the 1st Nobel Peace prize 1901 (shared with Passy)


Fritdjof Nansen, organised aid for 400 000 war prisoners and refugees after WW1


Mikhail Gorbatsjov - Initiated glasnost and perestroika, leading to end of the Cold war


Marthin Luther King jr. - leading nonviolent fight for civil rights for all Americans without racial prejudice


Rigoberta Menchú Tum - activist for Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation


Norwegian block no. 21 - With Alfred Nobel and glimpse of the selected 7 prize winners

(Forgive me for using scans from the web, my own copies are not this presentable!)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 - Albert Claude (1898-1983)
...................................................................Christian de Duve (1917-2013)
...................................................................George Emil Palade (1912-2008)

They shared price in medicine "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell".

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Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cytologist................Christian de Duve was a Belgian cytologist and biochemist.
He developed the principal methods of separating................He discovered lysosomes (the digestive organelles of the cell) and
and analyzing components of the living cell..........................peroxisomes (organelles that are the site of metabolic processes).



George Emil Palade was Romanian-born American cell biologist who developed
tissue-preparation methods, advanced centrifuging techniques,
and conducted electron microscopy studies that resulted in the discovery of several cellular structures.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 - Thomas Mann (1875-1955)



Thomas Mann was a German novelist and essayist.
His famous novels: Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice and
The Magic Mountain earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)



Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky a Russian and American poet and essayist won Nobel prize
for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984)



Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov a Soviet author won the Nobel Prize
for his novels and stories about the Cossacks of southern Russia.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888-1964)



Frans Eemil Sillanpää a Finnish writer was
in 1939 awarded the nobel prize as the first Finnish writer.
He became famous for his novel Nuorena nukkunut (The Maid Silja) in 1931.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz (1914-2002)


....................................................................................... crystal structure of hemoglobin

Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist.
He won the prize for his studies of the structure of hemoglobin and other globular proteins.
He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew.

Here is an image of an airmail stamp featuring a portrait of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), and depicting symbols representing the five Nobel Prize categories (Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine), designed and engraved by Jacques Combet, and issued by Mali on February 22, 1971, Scott No. C115.

- nethryk