Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.8 Nobel Prize Medicine 1946-1959
- Date:
- 1974-2008
- Reference:
- EPH751:8
- Part of:
- Gwen Prout Stamp Collection
- Archives and manuscripts
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The volume comprises a collection of stamps, first day covers, biographies and press cuttings about various winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded between 1946 and 1959. Some of the items come with annotations and captions made by Gwen Prout. The stamps come from all over the world covering Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Oceania.
The volume covers the following Nobel Prize winners:
1946: Hermann Joseph Muller
1947: Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori and Bernardo Alberto Houssay
1948: Paul Hermann Müller
1949: Walter Hess and António Caetano Egas Moniz
1950: Philip Showalter Hench, Edward Calvin Kendall and Tadeusz Reichstein
1951: Max Theiler
1952: Selman Abraham Waksman
1953: Sir Hans Krebs and Fritz Lipmann
1954: John Franklin Enders, Frederick Chapman Robbins and Thomas Huckle Weller
1955: Axel Theorell
1956: André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards
1957: Daniel Bovet
1958: George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum and Joshua Lederberg
1959: Arthur Kornberg and Severo Ochoa
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