Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.36 Nobel Prize Physics 1910-1925

Date:
1936-2010
Reference:
EPH751:36
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 Physics awarded between 1910 and 1925. 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 and Africa.

The volume covers the following Nobel Prize winners:

1910: Johannes Diderik van der Waals

1911: Wilhelm Wien

1912: Nils Gustaf Dalén

1913: Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes

1914: Max von Laue

1915: Sir William Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg

1917: Charles Glover Barkla

1918: Max Planck

1919: Johannes Stark

1920: Charles Édouard Guillaume

1922: Niels Bohr

1923: Robert Andrews Millikan

1924: Manne Siegbahn

1925: James Franck and Gustav Hertz

Items relating the the 1921 Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein, are in volume 37 and 38.

Publication/Creation

1936-2010

Physical description

1 volume

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