1 Won First Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jacobus Van't Hoff

North Korea's commemorative program of the early 2000s produced dozens of issues honoring Western scientists, Nobel laureates among them — an ideologically incongruous series from a state otherwise hostile to Western intellectual tradition. Van't Hoff was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901, recognized for his work on chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions. The centenary of that award prompted this issue.

The brass variant is the more commonly encountered of the known metal strikes for this type.