Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.8 Nobel Prize Medicine 1946-1959

Date:
1974-2008
Reference:
EPH751:8
Part of:
Gwen Prout Stamp Collection
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About this work

Description

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

Publication/Creation

1974-2008

Physical description

1 volume

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