Maria Sklodowska–Curie's 1911 Nobel Prize
for Chemistry diploma (now in Poland): rear interior. Art by Sofia Gisberg.

Awards of Outstanding International Importance to Statesmen and Heroines

The Art of the Nobel P rize diploma (physics greats)

Neils Bohr's 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics diploma (now in Denmark): rear interior. Art by Sofia Gisberg, same format as for Einstein's.

Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics
diploma (now in Israel): front exterior.

Sir James Chadwick's 1935 Nobel Prize for Physics diploma: rear interior. Art by Elsa Örtengren-Noréen (same format as Heisenberg's, 1932).

Sir James Chadwick's 1935
Nobel Prize for Physics
diploma: front exterior

Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics
diploma: rear interior. Art by Sofia Gisberg.

Enrico Fermi's 1938 Nobel Prize for Physics
diploma (now at U. of Chicago): front exterior.

Enrico Fermi's 1938 Nobel Prize for Physics diploma: front interior. Art by Elsa Örtengren-Noréen.

From  http:// nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/diplomas/  :

Today each Nobel diploma is a unique work of art. The Literature diploma is written on parchment, i.e. specially treated leather, using largely the same technique as those of medieval book illustrators. The diplomas given to the other Laureates are produced on specially ordered handmade paper.

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Each panel is 11 3/8 x 15 1/4 inches (29 x 38.5 cm.) larger than the post-Beck panels (e.g. Barak Obama's Peace Prize diploma interior shown below), which are each 23 x 35 cm.

All diplomas shown above were manufactured by Beck & Son, (Stockholm) who made the Swedish Diplomas from their inception until the mid-1960's (and, for Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, until the early 1970's);   Post-Beck & Son diplomas, made by Falth & Hassler, have plain covers, bearing Laureate's name in block letters (see photo to right, of Laureate holding diploma, next to that of Barak Obama's Peace Prize diploma interior).

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