The Nobel Stamps of 1974

Day of issue: 10 December 1974 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 1914:

MAX VON LAUE (1879–1960) studied at the universities in Strasbourg, Göttingen and Munich, and in 1902 he moved to Berlin University, where his studies were directed towards optics and thermo-dynamics, under the influence of Max Planck. With his epoch-making discovery of the interference of X-rays, he gave science valuable means of research. Max von Laue received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."

THEODORE WILLIAM RICHARDS (1868–1928) began his scientific career at Harvard University. His studies were mainly concerned with the atomic weights of oxygen and copper. Later he made gravimetric atomic weight determinations of all the elements regarded as fundamental (oxygen, silver, chlorine, bromine, iodine, potassium, sodium, nitrogen and sulphur). T. W. Richards received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "as an acknowledgement of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a great number of chemical elements."

ROBERT BÁRÁNY (1876–1936) studied medicine in Vienna, where he became associate professor in aural diseases in 1909. A great number of his works dealt with the physiology of the inner ear in connection with balance disturbances. Robert Bárány received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus."

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