Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.40 Nobel Prize Physics 1939-1955

The volume comprises a collection of stamps, first day covers, biographies and press cuttings about various winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded between 1939 and 1955. 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, Asia and Africa.

The volume covers the following Nobel Prize winners:

1939: Ernest Lawrence

1943: Otto Stern

1944: Isidor Isaac Rabi

1945: Wolfgang Pauli

1946: Percy Williams Bridgman

1947: Edward Victor Appleton

1948: Patrick Blackett

1949: Hideki Yukawa

1950: Cecil Frank Powell

1951: John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton

1952: Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell

1953: Frits Zernike

1954: Max Born and Walther Bothe

1955: Willis Eugene Lamb and Polykarp Kusch