Nobel Prizes And Laureates

Happy Birthday to Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (1905-1961), a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. Hammarskjöld is the youngest person to have held the post, and is one of only three people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize (the 1961 Peace Prize). Here is an image of a stamp depicting Dag Hammarskjöld and the New York City headquarters of the United Nations, designed by Herbert M. Sanborn, engraved by Charles A. Brooks (vignette) and Kenneth C. Wigram (lettering), and issued by the USA on October 23, 1962, Scott No. 1203, plus an image of the Special Printing of this stamp on November 16, 1962 which was made after the discovery of the inverted yellow background error (Scott No. 1203a) of the original issue, Scott No. 1204, and an image of a photograph of Dag Hammarskjöld.

- nethryk

I just purchased Sheryll Reucker's one page exhibit on this at the 'mini-auction' held at Oregon Stamp Society earlier this month. :)

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 - Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
Chile
October 21, 1991
Pablo Neruda became known as a poet when he was 10 years old. He wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 was awarded to Pablo Neruda "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams".

Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 and 1972 - John Bardeen (1908 - 1991)
United States March 6, 2008
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology - Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology - Severo Ochoa
Spain - Sweden Joint Issue - Nobel Laureates
March 20, 2003

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 – 1934) was a Spanish pathologist, histologist and neuroscientist. His original pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain have led his being designated by many, as the father of modern neuroscience.
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905 – 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg. He is known for discovery of mechanisms in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA.

1930 Nobel Peace Prize - Nathan Söderblom
The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Nathan Söderblom
January 15, 1966
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom (1866 – 1931) was a Swedish clergyman. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala between 1914-1931. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930 for his efforts in the area of international understanding.

1901 Nobel Peace Prize - Henry Dunant
Luxembourg
March 6, 1989
Jean Henri Dunant (1828 – 1910) also known as Henry Dunant was a Swiss businessman and social activist. He was the founder of the Red Cross, and the first recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.

1936 Nobel Peace Prize - Carlos Lamas
Argentina
August 14, 1976
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878 – 1959) was an Argentine academic and politician. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary contribution, as the foreign minister of Argentina (1932 - 1938), to the peace in Latin America.

Germany
Centenary of Alfred Nobel's Will
November 9, 1995
The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The Nobel Foundation was formed to handle Nobel's fortune and organize the prizes. The first prizes were awarded on 10 December 1901.

1982 Nobel Peace Prize - Alfonso Garcia Robles
Mexico
December 10, 1982
Alfonso García Robles (1911 – 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician. He was the driving force behind the Treaty of Tlatelolco which establishes a nuclear-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean.

1982 Nobel Peace Prize - Alva Myrdal
Sweden
November 20, 1991
Alva Myrdal (1902 – 1986) was a Swedish sociologist and politician. She received a Nobel Peace Prize for her remarkable contribution in the world disarmament.

1921 Nobel Peace Prize - Karl Hjalmar Branting
1921 Nobel Peace Prize - Christian Lous Lange
Norway
November 25, 1981

Karl Hjalmar Branting (1860 – 1925) was a Swedish politician. He supported the League of Nations.
Christian Lous Lange (1869 – 1938) was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism.