The Nobel Stamps of 1984

The stamps were engraved by Martin Mörck after originals by Urban Frank and Nils Peterson. The stamps are printed by recess at the PFA. The illustration on the First Day Cover is by Urban Frank.

 

The stamps portray Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine:

GEORG von BÉKÉSY, USA, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1961 for his discovery of how sound is transformed into electric signals in the inner ear.

JOHN ECCLES, Australia, ALAN HODGKIN and ANDREW HUXLEY Great Britain, shared the 1963 Prize for their description of how impulses are communicated or repressed by nerve cells.

JULIUS AXELROD, USA, BERNARD KATZ, Great Britain, and ULF von EULER, Sweden, received the 1970 Prize for their discoveries of the mechanisms whereby nerve cells store, release, and break down signal substances.

ROGER SPERRY USA, shared the 1981 Prize with Hubel and Wiesel. Sperry's studies clarified important functional differences between the two halves of the brain.

DAVID HUBEL, USA, and TORSTEN WIESEL, Sweden, awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize for their work on the information processing in the system of vision.

 

© 1984 SWEDEN POST STAMPS