Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.41 Nobel Prize Physics 1956-1964

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 1956 and 1964. 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:

1956: John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain and William Bradford Shockley

1957: Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang

1958: Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm

1959: Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain

1960: Donald A. Glaser

1961: Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Mössbauer

1962: Lev Davidovich Landau

1963: Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen

1964: Nikolay Basov and Charles H. Townes