Sweden

Date1963, 10 XII
Value50 Ö
Catalog no.Mi 514   Sc 638   SG 472   Y&T 513
TopicCurie, Marie
OccasionSet of Nobel Prize winners
DescriptionTo remember the first Nobel Prizes 60 years before, the Swedish Post issued from 1961 until 1968 a set of stamps with the portraits of persons that won a Nobel Prize between 1901 and 1908. On this 1963-stamp 3 French scientists, that won the prize for physics in 1903: Henri Bequerel, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.