The Nobel Stamps of 1971

Printed at the Post Office Stamp Printing Works, Stockholm, on fluorescent stamp-paper. Printing process: Recess Design - Lasse Söderberg Engraver - Arne Wallhorn Booklet layout - Jan Magnusson

The stamps portray the Nobel Laureates of 1911:

MAURICE (MOORIS) POLIDORE MARIE BERNHARD MAETERLINCK (1862–1949), Belgian writer of Flemish origin: the Nobel Prize for Literature "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations."

MARIE CURIE (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist, professor at the University of Paris, honorary professor and head of the Radium Institute in Warsaw, established in 1925: the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element."

WILHELM WIEN (1864–1928), German physicist, professor at the University of Würtzburg: the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat."

ALLVAR GULLSTRAND (1862–1930), professor of physiological and physical optics at the University of Uppsala: the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye."

© 1971 SWEDEN POST STAMPS