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NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: A good multiple signed commemorative cover issued on the 100th Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 1863-1963, featuring the signatures of eleven Nobel Laureates in Physics comprising Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988, American physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1944), Ernest Walton (1903-1995, Irish physicist who was the first to split the atom, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1951), Tsung-Dao Lee (1926- , Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1957), Yang Chen-Ning (1922- , Chinese theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1957), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907-1973, German nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1963), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972, German-born American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1963), Richard Feynman (1918-1988, American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1965), Hans Bethe (1906-2005, German-American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1967), Hannes Alfven (1908-1995, Swedish plasma physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1970), Louis Neel (1904-2000, French physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1970), and Dennis Gabor (1900-1979, Hungarian-British physicist who invented holography, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1971). All have signed with their names alone in blue or black inks to clear areas of the cover. Postmarked at Washington DC, 14th October 1963. One very light, minor stain only very slightly affects three of the signatures, otherwise VG
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