A Jewish-born Nobel laureate and a pioneering graphic designer are celebrated in a new set of Royal Mail stamps issued this week.
Max Perutz and artist Abrams Games are among 10 20th-century figures from the fields of sport, economics, and the arts who are remembered in the “Remarkable Lives” series.
Perutz was a molecular biologist who devoted his life to the study of haemoglobin, and won the Nobel Prize in 1962.
Born in Austria, he came to Britain in 1936 to take a job as a researcher at Cambridge University. Although his parents were Jewish by ancestry they had him baptised as a Catholic. He died in 2002.
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