The Nobel Stamps of 1973

Day of issue: 10 December, 1973. Values: 65 öre, 70 öre, 1 kr. Design - Lennart Forsberg; Engraver - Arne Wallhorn; Printing process - Recess; Printed at the Post Office Stamp Printing Works.

 

The stamps portray the Nobel Laureates of 1913:

HEIKE KAMERLINGH-ONNES (1853–1926), Dutch physicist, professor at the University of Leiden, the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium."

ALFRED WERNER (1866–1919), professor of chemistry at the University of Zurich, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry."

CHARLES ROBERT RICHET (1850–1935), French physiologist, professor of physiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis."

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941), Indian poet and thinker; the Nobel Prize in Literature "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

 

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