The Nobel Stamps of 1972

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

 

The stamps portray the Nobel Laureates of 1912:

PAUL SABATIER (1854–1941), French chemist, professor at the University of Toulouse; the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years."

VICTOR GRIGNARD (1871–1935), French chemist, professor in Nancy (1909) and in Lyon (1919); the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry."

ALEXIS CARREL (1873–1944), French-American surgeon and physiologist, professor at the Rockefeller Institute, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs."

GUSTAF DALÉN (1869–1937), Swedish engineer and inventor; the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."

GERHART HAUPTMANN (1862–1946), German author, the Nobel Prize in Literature primarily "in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm ot dramatic art."

 

© 1972 SWEDEN POST STAMPS