Centenary of creation of Alfred Nobel’s Foundation
Stamp issued in 1995
Belgium
Father Dominique Pire – Nobel Peace Prize 1958
Stamp issued in 1978 (20th Anniversary)
German Federal Republic
Wilhelm Röntgen receiver of 1st Nobel Physics Prize in 1901
Stamp issued in 1951 (50th Anniversary)
Otto Hahn – Nobel Chemistry Prize 1944
Stamp issued in 1979 (Birth Centenary)
Max von Laue – Nobel Physics Prize 1914
Stamp issued in 1979 (Birth Centenary)
James Franck and Max Born – shared Nobel Peace Prize 1954
Stamp issued in 1982 (Birth Centenary of both men)
Paul Ehrlich – Nobel Prize in Physiology 1908
Emil von Behring – Nobel Prize in Physiology 1901
Stamp issued in 2024
Hungary
Dr Albert Schweizer – Nobel Peace Prize 1952
Stamps issued in 1975 (Birth Centenary)
Isle of Man
Sir William Bragg – shared Nobel Prize in Physics with his son Lawrence in 1915
Stamp issued in 1983
Italy
Camillo Golgi – Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1904
Stamp issued in 1994
Netherlands
J.H. van ‘t Hoff – Winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901
Stamp issued in 1991
Pieter Zeeman – Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902
Stamp issued in 1991
T.M.C. Asser – Nobel Peace Prize in Physics
Stamp issued in 1991
J.D. van der Wals – Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 1910
Stamp issued in 1993
W. Einthoven – Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine in 1924
Stamp issued in 1993
C. Eijkman – Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine in 1929
Stamp issued in 1993
J. Tinbergen – Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969
Stamp issued in 1995
Poland
Marie Curie – shared Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel in 1903
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913
Stamp issued in 1982
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different fields
Both her daughter and son-in-law also shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making the Curie family the winner of the most Nobel Prizes in history
Russia
I. Meknikov – Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908
Stamp issued in 1991
P.L. Kapitsa – Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978
Stamp issued in 1994
South Africa*
Max Teiler – Medicine, 1951
Albert Luthuli, Peace, 1961
Alfred Nobel – 1833-1896
Allan Cormack, Medicine, 1979
Aaron Klug -Chemicstry, 1982
Desmond Tutu – Peace, 1984
Nadine Gordimer – Literature, 1991
The Nobel Prize – 1901-1996
Nelson Mandela – Peace, 1993
F.W. de Klerk – Peace, 1993
Sweden*
The following Swedish stamps depict Nobel Prize winners from various countries
Alfred Nobel, 1833-1896
The first winners of the Nobel Prize in 1901
Wilhelm Röntgen – Nobel Prize in Physics (German)
Rene Prudhomme – Nobel Prize in Literature (French)
Emil Von Behring – Nobel Prize in Literature (Prussian – today Polish)
Jacobus Van’t Hoff – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Dutch)
Jose Echegaray – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1904 (Spanish)
G. Mistral – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1945 – the 5th woman to receive a Nobel Prize (Chilean)
Baron Rayleigh – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1904 (British)
William Ramsay – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1904 (Scottish)
Ivan Pavlov – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1904 (Russian)
Robert Koch – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1905 (German)
Henryk Sienkiewicz – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1905 (Polish)
Joseph John Thomson – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1906 (British)
Giosue Carducci – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1906 (Italian)
Gabriel Lippmann – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1908 (French)
Rudolph Eucken – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1908 (German)
Selma Lagerlöf – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1909 (Swedish)*
Guglielmo Marconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1909 (Italian), shared with
Ferdianand Braun (German)
Marie Curie – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1911 (Polish) – her second, her first in Physics was in 1903
Carl Gustav von Heidenstam – Nobel Prize in Literature, 1916 (Swedish)
Fritz Haber – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1918 (German)
Harry Martinson shared Nobel Prize in Literature with fellow Swede, Eyvind Johnson in 1974
Stamp issued in 1994