Date | 2011, 17 XI |
Value | 12 KR |
Catalog no. | Mi 2847 - 2848, BL38 Sc 2672a - 2672b, 2672 SG 2828 - 2829, MS2756 Y&T 2828 - 2829 |
Topic | Curie, Marie - Naszarkowski, Piotr |
Occasion | Centennial of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for Maria Skłodowska-Curie |
Description | Joint issue with Poland. Design: Marzanna Dąbrowska (Poland), engraving: Piotr Naszarkowski (Swedish Post).
Sheet of two stamps.On the other stamp a medal with the portrait of Alfred Nobel.
The stamp shows Maria Skłodowska-Curie in a laboratory carrying a bottle, containing radium. A transparant fluorescent coloring has been used, to make the radium on stamp glow under UV light. |