Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.11 Nobel Prize Medicine 1962 #2

The volume comprises a collection of stamps, first day covers, biographies and press cuttings relating to the discovery of the double helix and DNA, genetics, genomics and Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, winners of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Some of the items come with annotations and captions made by Gwen Prout. The stamps come from all over the world covering Europe, Asia, North America,

The file also includes some information about the following scientists: Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Joan Oró, Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Johann Friedrich Miescher, Oswald Avery and Maclyn McCarty.

Additional material is in volume 10.