The Nobel Stamps of 1969

Printed at the Swedish Post Office Stamp Printing Works according to the steel-engraving method on fluorescent stamp-paper, the 55-öre value on light-pink paper and the other two on white paper. Designer: The artist Lasse Söderberg. Engraver: The stamp-engraver Arne Wallhorn.

 

The stamps portray the Nobel Laureates of 1909:

SELMA LAGERLÖF (1858–1940), authoress, member of the Royal Swedish Academy, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writing."

WILHELM OSTWALD (1853–1932), German chemist, physicist and natural philosopher, professor at Leipzig University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction."

EMIL THEODOR KOCHER (1841–1917), Swiss surgeon, professor at Berne University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland."

GUGLIELMO MARCONI (1874–1937), Italian physicist and inventor and CARL FERDINAND BRAUN (1850–1918), German physicist professor at Strasbourg University, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."

 

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