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'.

 

 

 

 

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) was awarded the prize in physiology or medicine in 1960 ‘for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) was awarded the prize in physiology or medicine in 1963 ‘for discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane'.

 

 

 

 

Patrick White (1912-1990) was awarded the prize in literature in 1973 ‘for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature'.