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Malian postage stamp commemorating the 250th anniversary of Isaac Newton's death
- 1977
Stamp depicts the launch of an Atlas rocket carrying a Mercury single-man spacecraft, Newton, the fabled apple, and a satellite (possibly NASA's first Orbiting Astronomical Observatory launched in 1966).
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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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First Day Cover commemorating August Kekule
- 1966-Sep-07
Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz was a German organic and theoretical chemist, whose most famous work was determining the structure of benzene. The FDC features Kekule on the cachet, a postmark depicting the…
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Postage stamp from Monaco commemorating science and the 25th anniversary of UNESCO
- 1971-Sep-06
Stamp depicts an alchemist, rocket, and radar system.
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First Day Cover commemorating the 200th birthday of Johan Gadolin
- 1960-Jun-04
Cachet and stamp depict Johan Gadolin, who discovered the element yttrium and is considered the "founder of Finnish chemistry." The stamp commemorates the bicentennial of Gadolin's birth and features his likeness based…
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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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Belgian postage stamp commemorating Trappist monks at Orval
- Circa 1939
Depicts two Trappist monks from Orval Abbey, presumably brewing Trappist beer.
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Iranian postage stamp commemorating the 1100th birthday of Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī (Rhazes)
- 1964
Depicts Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī (also known as Rhazes), a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, and philosopher.
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Postage stamp from Dubai commemorating Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- 1971
Postage stamp from Dubai, featuring a depiction of Persian polymath Avicenna (circa 980 - 1037), also known as Ibn Sina, Abu Ali Sina, and Pur Sina. Avicenna is regarded as one of the most significant physicians,…
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Postage stamp from Comoros commemorating Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- After 1979 – before 2000
Postage stamp from Comoros, an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the south-east coast of Africa, featuring a depiction of Persian polymath Avicenna (circa 980 - 1037), also known as Ibn Sina, Abu Ali Sina,…
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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…
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First Day Cover commemorating the centenary of the Convention du Mètre (Treaty of the Meter)
- 1975
Cachet depicts the wavelength of krypton-86, which was formerly used to define the meter from 1960 until 1983. A meter was defined during this time as the wavelength of the 605 nm (orange) spectral line of a krypton-86…
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Semipostal stamp from Luxembourg to support the International Relief Fund for Intellectuals
- 1935
Depicts a scientist in a laboratory setting looking through a microscope.
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East German postage stamp commemorating science and socialism
- Undated
Stamp from the "Builders of Socialism" series, depicting aspects of chemistry and related sciences.
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East German postage stamp commemorating August Kekule
- 1979
Stamp depicts August Kekule with the chemical structure of a benzene ring.
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English postage stamp commemorating Walter Norman Haworth's 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 100th anniversary of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
- 1977
While celebrating its centenary in 1977, the Royal Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain shared honors with English Nobel prize winners in chemistry and physics. This stamp commemorates W. N. Haworth's receipt of the…
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French semipostal stamp commemorating Louis Pasteur
- 1973
Stamp depicts Louis Pasteur with microbes as seen through a microscope.
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Postage stamp commemorating the Natural Rubber Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1968
- 1968
Stamp was issued on the occasion of a Natural Rubber Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1968. It depicts a space-filling model of isoprene and a representation of the traditional way of collecting natural…
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Postage stamp commemorating the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico)
- Postage stamp commemorating the National Council of Science and Technology (Mexico)
- 1972
Mexican postage stamp honoring the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (National Council of Science and Technology), which was founded in 1970. Equivalent to the National Science Foundation (United States), the…
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Postage stamp commemorating Ghana's conversion to the metric system in 1975
- 1975
Stamp depicts scales weighing jars of jam, with text, "2 1/4 lbs of Jam is a little more than a kilogram."
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Romanian postage stamp commemorating Expo '67 in Montreal
- 1967
Depicts logo for Expo '67 inside a diagram of an atom (diagram may represent an orbiting spacecraft).
- Artist I. Druga, G. Bozianu
- Subject Romania, Exhibitions, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Postage stamps
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Cuban postage stamp promoting El Mundo Unido Contra La Malaria campaign
- Cuban postage stamp promoting The World United Against Malaria campaign
- 1962
Cuban postage stamp printed to promote world anti-malaria campaign. Depicts a chinchona plant and chemical formulas for chloroquine and primaquine, medications used to treat malaria.
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Soviet postage stamp commemorating 1965 IUPAC meeting in Moscow
- 1965-Jun-15
Stamp issued to publicize the 20th Congress of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), held in Moscow, July 12-18. The names of both the organization and the host city are spelled with chemical…
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Test Tube Rack
- Undated
Rectangular wooden apparatus for holding fifteen test tubes upright. Heavy tape has been attached to all four sides.
- Subject MacDiarmid, Alan G., 1927-2007, Test tubes
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