Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.39 Nobel Prize Physics 1926-1938

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 1926 and 1938. 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, Asia and Africa.

The volume covers the following Nobel Prize winners:

1926: Jean Baptiste Perrin

1927: Arthur Holly Compton and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1928: Owen Willans Richardson

1929: Louis de Broglie

1930: C. V. Raman

1932: Werner Heisenberg

1933: Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Dirac

1935: James Chadwick

1936: Victor Francis Hess and Carl David Anderson

1937: Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson

1938: Enrico Fermi