Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.36 Nobel Prize Physics 1910-1925
- Date:
- 1936-2010
- Reference:
- EPH751:36
- Part of:
- Gwen Prout Stamp Collection
- Archives and manuscripts
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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.
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