Sweden stamps Winners of the Nobel Prize lot MNH(**)
That’s a popular and extensive theme in Swedish philately! Sweden has issued numerous series and individual stamps over the decades to honor Alfred Nobel and the winners of the Nobel Prize.1
If you’re looking at a lot of these stamps, you are likely looking at a collection of sets issued mostly from the 1960s onward, often commemorating the winners from a specific year early in the Prize’s history.
Here is an overview of the main Nobel Prize stamp releases from Sweden, often featuring multiple winners in a set:
🇸🇪 Major Swedish Nobel Prize Winners Stamp Series
Sweden started a tradition in the 1960s of issuing annual or near-annual sets that commemorated the Nobel Prize winners from an earlier specific year, often focusing on the first few decades of the prize (1901-1921).
| Series Year of Issue | Subject (Nobel Year Commemorated) | Examples of Laureates Featured | Number of Values |
| 1958 | Selma Lagerlöf (1909 Literature) | Selma Lagerlöf (Nobel Laureate) | 3 |
| 1963 | Nobel Winners of 1903 | Becquerel, Marie & Pierre Curie, Bjørnson, Finsen, Arrhenius | 3 |
| 1964 | Nobel Winners of 1904 | Rayleigh, Fischer, Pavlov, Mistral, Peace (Institute) | 2 |
| 1965 | Nobel Winners of 1905 | von Baeyer, Koch, Sienkiewicz | 2 |
| 1966 | Nathan Söderblom (1930 Peace) | Nathan Söderblom (Nobel Laureate) | 2 |
| 1966 | Nobel Winners of 1906 | Carducci, Thomson, Ramón y Cajal, Golgi, Roosevelt | 2 |
| 1968 | Nobel Winners of 1908 | Eucken, Metchnikoff, Ehrlich | 2 |
| 1972 | Nobel Winners of 1912 | Hauptmann, Carrel, Dalén | 4 |
| 1973 | Nobel Winners of 1913 | Tagore, Werner, Richet | 3 |
| 1974 | Nobel Winners of 1914 | Richards, Peace (Red Cross), T. Svedberg (1926 Chem.) | 3 |
| 1975 | Nobel Winners of 1915 | R. Rolland, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg | 3 |
| 1976 | Nobel Winners of 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam (Literature) | 2 |
| 1979 | Nobel Winners of 1919 | C. Spitteler, J. Bordet, J. Stark, W. Nernst | 3 |
| 1981 | Nobel Winners of 1921 | A. Einstein, F. Soddy | 3 |
| 2001 | 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize | Commemorative designs (Joint issue with the USA) | 4 |
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