Info| Date | 1977, 07 VII |
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| Value | 200 F |
| Catalog no. | Mi 350 Sc 258 Y&T 125 |
| Topic | Curie, Marie |
| Occasion | Series Nobel Prize laureates |
| Description | A series of 6 stamps, dedicated to Nobel laureates of different years. This stamp should show the laureates in Chemistry, but..... On the right the portrait of Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in 1911, and not in 1913, as mentioned on the stamp. Next to her the portrait of Philip Hench, who didn't receive the Prize for chemistry but for Medicine,in 1950.The person in the centre, Jean Perrin, he was awarded in 1925 for Physics, not Chemistry. The man, wearing glasses, is F. Banting. He got the Nobelprize for Medicine in 1923.On the left side one sees the only person who is mentioned fully correct: Wiliam Ramsay, Nobel Prize 1904 for Physics. This issue doesn't have postal value and has been printed especially for collectors. |
