Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.30 Nobel Prize Chemistry 1961-1979

The volume comprises a collection of stamps, first day covers, biographies and press cuttings about various winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded between 1961 and 1979. 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:

1961: Melvin Calvin

1962: Max Perutz and John Kendrew

1963: Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta

1964: Dorothy Hodgkin

1965: Robert Burns Woodward

1966: Robert S. Mulliken

1967: Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter

1968: Lars Onsager

1969: Derek H. R. Barton and Odd Hassel

1970: Luis F. Leloir

1971: Gerhard Herzberg

1972: Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore and William H. Stein

1973: Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson

1974: Paul J. Flory

1975: John Cornforth and Vladimir Prelog

1976: William N. Lipscomb

1977: Ilya Prigogine

1978: Peter D. Mitchell

1979: Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig