The Nobel Stamps of 1979

Day of issue: 15 December 1979, Values: 1,30 kr, 1,70 kr, 2,50 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 1919:

JULES BORDET (1870–1961) is, after Louis Pasteur, the greatest name in bacteriology and immunology in th early 20th century. Even as a young man he created a sensation by his work on Asiatic cholera and he was later to contribute to the isolation of the whooping cough bacillus. Based on Bordet's studies of complements, A. von Wasserman and others constructed the diagnostic serum reaction to syphilis. Bordet was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

JOHANNES STARK (1874–1957) was a professor at the technical high schools of Hannover and Würtzburg. He was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Doppler effect on parallel rays and of the distortion of spectral lines in an electric field. The effect discovered by Stark has been of importance to the study of atomic structure.

CARL SPITTELER (1845–1924) showed contrasting aspects even in his early writings: misanthropy and defiance as against visionary, humoristic imagination. He was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature for his monumental work "Olympischer Frühling" issued in two volumes 1900–1904 and revised in 1910. The work comprises 600 pages of verse about the gods and heroes of the Olympus, their agonies and their exploits.

 

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