Australian Nobel Prize winners

 

 

Since 1915, when Australian William Lawrence Bragg shared the Prize in Physics, there have been some 11 Australian Nobel Laureates.

Australia Post  issued  a set of five stamps to commemorate the achievements of Australian Nobel Prize winners (or Nobel Laureates). The Laureates are represented by portraits by some of Australia's most respected artists.

 

Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971) was jointly awarded the prize in physics in 1915 for his ‘services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays'.

 

Howard Florey (1898-1968) was awarded the prize in physiology or medicine in 1945 ‘for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases'.

 

 

 

 

International Humanitarians – Mother Teresa & Henry Dunant

 

An Post (Ireland Post) celebrated the great International Humanitarian of Mother Teresa and Henry Dunant by issuing a set of two stamps depicts the both figures respectively on June 17, 2010. These stamps were designed by Ger Garland .

 

The 55c stamp shown Mother Teresa set against the Missionary of Charity in Calcutta. Mother Teresa was born Agnese Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in modern-day Macedonia,  on August 26, 1910. Moved by the desire to become a missionary, she left home at the age of 18 and travelled to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Dublin. While there, she studied English so se could teach the children of India with the Sisters of Loreto.

Florence Nightingale

 

To celebrate the centenary of the birthday of Florence Nightingale, Alderney Post issued a set of six postage stamps features  her  pioneering work in nursing .

 

Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC , was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia,near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. She was born on May  12, 1820 .

Nightingale was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. As a Christian Universalist, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.