The Nobel Prize is awarded annually for the world's most significant achievements in various fields of endeavour.This issue honours five remarkable Australian recipients of the Nobel Prize. The first Australian Nobel Laureate was William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971) who was jointly awarded the 1915 prize in Physics for research on x-ray crystallography. Sir Howard Walter Florey (1898-1968) shared the 1945 prize in Medicine for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases. In 1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) was recognised with the prize in Medicine for his joint discovery of acquired immunological tolerance. The 1963 prize in Medicine was shared by Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) for his work on the ionic mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the brain, and in 1973 author Patrick White (1912-1990) received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "epic and psychological narrative art".
STAMP AND PACK DESIGN: Lynette Traynor, Australia Post Design Studio
STAMP PORTRAITS: Sir Macfarlane Burnet (detail), Clifton Pugh, oil on board, 120 x 90, 1966, Collection Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; SirJohn Eccles Professor of Physiology 1951-1966 (detail), Judy Cassab, oil on canvas, 1966, 105 x 80 cm,ANU Art Collection; Portrait of Patrick White at Centennial Park (detail), Brett Whiteley, 1979-80, 177 x 207 cm, Parliament of NSW Collection; The Lord Florey PRS (detail),Allan Gwynne-Jones, oil on canvas, 1963, 124.5 x 98.5 cm, commissioned by the University of Adelaide 1961 (photograph Mick Bradley); Lawrence Bragg (detail), Sir William Dargie, Collection St Peter's College Adelaide.
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