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First Day Cover commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of insulin
- 1971
Cachet depicts Frederick Banting and Charles Best with a description of how they isolated and refined insulin as an independent hormone.
- Artist Ray Webber
- Contributor British American Bank Note Company
- Subject Postage stamps, Best, Charles Herbert, 1899-1978, University of Toronto, Commemorative postage stamps, Banting, Frederick Grant, Sir, 1891-1941, Science on postage stamps, Canada, Nobel Prize winners, Medical scientists, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Physicians
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First Day Cover honoring Ernest Rutherford
- 1971
Cachet includes two depictions of Lord Rutherford and text, "World Famous Scientist Pioneering in Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics." The research program in the field of radioactivity undertaken by Rutherford at…
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Pakistani postage stamp commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Colombo Plan
- 1971
Stamp depicts the maple leaf cement factory in Daud Khel, Pakistan. The Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific is a regional inter-governmental organization. It was…
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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 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 United Nations Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
- 1972
Cachet created by ArtCraft includes depictions of an Atomic Research Center. Stamp depicts a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion crossed out with an "x".
- Creator Of Work ArtCraft
- Subject Postage stamps, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, United Nations, Treaties, Science on postage stamps, Nuclear nonproliferation, Nuclear energy--Research--Laboratories, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968 June 12)
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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 from Monaco commemorating Louis Pasteur
- 1972
Stamp depicts French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, along with boy receiving rabies vaccination, livestock, and chemical apparatuses.
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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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Facsimile of a Pasteur letter, with French postage stamps commemorating Louis Pasteur
- 1973-Jun-10
Semipostal stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur. Includes two postmarks depicting Pasteur, with Pasteur also featured on the first day of issue cancel. A semipostal stamp is a postage…
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First Day Cover commemorating Louis Pasteur
- 1973-Jun-10
Cachet, semipostal stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur. A semipostal stamp is a postage stamp issued to raise money for a particular purpose (such as a charitable cause) and sold at a premium over the postal value.
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First Day Cover commemorating the 150th birthday of Louis Pasteur
- 1973-Jun-10
Cachet, semipostal stamp, and postmark depict French chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). The portrait is a reproduction of a detail from Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt's famed portrait "Pasteur Dans Son Laboratoire"…
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Postage stamp commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Iraqi cement industry
- 1974
Depicts cement factory as well as high-rise buildings.
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First day cover commemorating Phénix fast breeder reactor
- 1974-Sep-21
Philatelic First Day Cover depicting a colorful artistic interpretation of the Phénix (French for phoenix), a small-scale prototype fast breeder reactor, located at the Marcoule nuclear site, near Orange, France. The…
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First day cover commemorating Phénix fast breeder reactor
- 1974-Sep-21
Philatelic First Day Cover depicting a colorful artistic interpretation of nuclear fission or fusion initiated within the interior of the Phénix (French for phoenix), a small-scale prototype fast breeder reactor,…
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First Day Cover commemorating the 9th World Petroleum Conference, Tokyo
- 1975
Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict oil derricks.
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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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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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Postage stamp commemorating the 5th Biennial Symposium of the Iranian Biochemical Society
- 1975
Stamp depicts a generic formula for an amino acid where R stands for "radical." In organic chemistry, this nomenclature represents the possibility of any one of a series of aliphatic groups, like methyl, ethyl, propyl,…
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Postage stamp from Saint Kitts and Nevis commemorating Marie Curie
- 1975
Stamp issued during International Women's Year (1975), depicting Marie Curie, "discoverer of radium," by the former British colony Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (now called the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.)
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women scientists, Chemists, Women physical scientists, International Women's Year (1975), Commemorative postage stamps, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Anguilla, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Belizean postage stamp commemorating the United States Bicentennial
- 1976
Depicts William Wrigley Jr., as well as a worker tapping a sapodilla tree, which was used to manufacture bubble gum. Includes the bicentennial logo of the American Revolution.
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Chadian postage stamp commemorating Albert Einstein
- 1976
Depicts Albert Einstein and a futuristic American spaceship.
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First Day Cover commemorating chemistry
- 1976
Colorano cachet includes a silk depiction of two alchemists in a laboratory. Stamp depicts chemical glassware and fluids.
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Mexican postage stamp commemorating the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (40th anniversary)
- 1976
Mexican postage stamp issued to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México (the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) on January 1, 1936. Established during the…
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Soviet postage stamp commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1976
Stamp published by the Soviet Union depicts images of an atom and the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
