Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.43 Nobel Prize Physics 1976-1989

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 1976 and 1989. 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:

1976: Burton Richter and Samuel C. C. Ting

1977: Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

1978: Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson

1979: Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg

1980: James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitc

1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn

1982: Kenneth G. Wilson

1983: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William Alfred Fowler

1984: Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer

1985: Klaus von Klitzing

1986: Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer

1987: Johannes Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller

1988: Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger

1989: Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Hans Georg Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul