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Beckman Model B Spectrophotometer
- 1948
The ultraviolet Model B was marketed as an easier to use and more affordable alternative to the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer.
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company…
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Beckman Model B Spectrophotometer
- 1948
The ultraviolet Model B was marketed as an easier to use and more affordable alternative to the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer.
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company…
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Workshop in an unidentified Beckman Instruments plant
- 1950s
Women assembling unidentified instruments at Beckman Instruments or one of its divisions.
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Beckman Instruments Process Division staff
- Circa 1957
- Photographer Dietrich, T. A.
- Subject Employees, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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John F. Bishop presenting a gift blanket to Hungarian refugees, Otto and Maria Haunold
- 1957
John F. Bishop was a Beckman Instruments employee who worked on the Flow Colorimeter, among other projects. The couple in the photograph are identified as Otto and Maria Haunold.
The pair fled to the United States in…
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Beckman Model DK-2A Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1957
The Beckman DK Spectrophotometer was an enhancement of the DU, which expanded the instrument’s range of into near-infrared. This was accomplished by chemist Wilbur I. Kaye, who began his work on science behind the DK at…
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Berkeley Model 5602-20 Nuclear Scaler
- 1950s
General view of an unidentified woman, presumably a model, holding up component parts of a nuclear scaler produced by the Berkeley Division of Beckman Instruments. A scaler is an electronic instrument used to count…
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Helipot trimmers and resistors
- 1950 – 1969
Shown with a pen for scale. These were likely manufactured by the Helipot Division.
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First Day Cover commemorating Claude-Louis Berthollet
- 1958
Cachet and stamp depict Claude-Louis Berthollet. Cachet includes text describing Berthollet's contributions to water purification.
- Creator Of Work P.A.C.
- Engraver Combet, Jacques
- Subject Water--Purification, Postage stamps, France, Chemists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 1748-1822
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First Day Cover commemorating the 75th anniversary of the American Chemical Society
- 1951
Cachet depicts two chemists working in a laboratory.
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American postage stamps commemorating the centennial of the silver rush (Comstock Lode)
- Circa 1959
Depicts three 19th-century silver miners.
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First Day Cover commemorating the 1958 World's Fair in Belgium
- 1958
Stamp printed in Belgium shows the Atomium and exposition emblem of the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
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Fluegel World War II Patriotic Cover commemorating use of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
- 1951
Cachet is a "Fluegel Cover" depicting atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima, Japan. Stamp depicts U.S. Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima.
- Artist Fluegel, Herman F. (Captain), 1882-1953
- Subject Nevada--Beatty, Japan--Hiroshima-shi, Fluegel, Herman F., Nevada--Nevada Test Site, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Atomic bomb, Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Japan : 1945), Iwo Jima, Battle of (Japan : 1945), Cachets (Philately), Postage stamps, World War (1939-1945)
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First Day Cover commemorating Max Planck
- 1953
Cachet and stamp depict Max Planck, while the postmark is of Otto Lilienthal, who pioneered the use of gliders. Stamp is part of series, "Men from the History of Berlin."
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First Day Cover commemorating Paul Sabatier
- 1956
Cachet depicts chemical apparatus used in the petroleum industry. Stamp depicts Paul Sabatier, "founder of catalytic chemistry."
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German postage stamp commemorating Fritz Haber
- After 1950 – before 1995
Stamp depicts profile of Fritz Haber who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas, which allowed for the large-scale synthesis of…
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First Day Cover commemorating Svante Arrhenius
- 1959
Cachet and stamp depict the Swedish chemist and physicist Svante Arrhenius.
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First Day Cover commemorating Albert Einstein
- 1956
Stamp depicts Albert Einstein and the the equation of mass-energy equivalence (E=MC2). Einstein has been featured on numerous stamps from around the world. His first appearance on a stamp is believed to be on this…
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First Day Cover commemorating the centenary of the death of Amedeo Avogadro
- 1956
Cachet depicts a bust of Avogadro as well as text of Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. The stamp…
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First Day Cover commemorating Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- 1951
Cachet and semipostal stamp depict Gay-Lussac. Cachet depicts a book titled "Law of Gay-Lussac" and various scientific apparatus. Envelope is addressed to Mrs. Richard M. Lawrence, President of the ACS Wives Club.
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First Day Cover commemorating George Washington Carver
- 1948-Jan-05
Philatelic First Day Cover honoring American agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver (1864?-1943). The envelope features an illustrated rendering of Carver and the Tuskegee Institute, as well as a…
- Artist Boll, Ken
- Creator Of Work Cachet Craft
- Subject Postage stamps, African American scientists, Inventors, Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943, Tuskegee Institute, Commemorative postage stamps, African Americans, Science on postage stamps, Cachets (Philately), Agricultural chemistry, Botanists, First day covers (Philately)
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Belgian semipostal stamp commemorating Leo H. Baekeland
- 1955-Oct-09
Stamp depicts Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian chemist who invented Bakelite (polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride) in 1907. Bakelite was an inexpensive, versatile, and popular plastic, which marked the beginning of the…
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East German postage stamp commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Georgius Agricola
- 1955
Stamp depicts Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), who is perhaps best known as the "father of minerology" and for his work De re metallica [On the Nature of Metals].
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Peruvian postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the birth of Daniel Alcides Carrión García
- 1958
Peruvian postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the birth of Daniel Alcides Carrión García (1857-1885), a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named. The stamp depicts Saint Martin de Porres…
