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Cuban postage stamp commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie's discovery of radium
- 1938
Stamp printed by the Republic of Cuba, depicting Marie and Pierre Curie. The 40th anniversary of the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie was commemorated in France in 1938 with the release of a semipostal…
- Artist La Nézière, Joseph de
- Engraver Piel, Jules
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Cuba, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, International Union against Cancer, Women chemists, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Commemorative postage stamps, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Postage stamp from Monaco commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie
- 1938
The 40th anniversary of the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie was commemorated in France in 1938 with the release of a semipostal stamp bearing a 50-cent surtax to benefit the International Union Against…
- Engraver Degorce, Georges-Léo
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Monaco, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, International Union against Cancer, Women chemists, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Commemorative postage stamps, Women Nobel Prize winners
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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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Physical Testing Laboratory View #3
- 1930s – circa
General view of the Physical Testing Laboratory located in the Educational Buildings at the Dow Chemical Company facility in Midland, Michigan.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Calibration of a McLeod Gauge
- 1930s
The McLeod Gauge measures very low pressures of gasses. Its presence in this collection indicates that it was used during the production of Beckman Instruments' early pH meters. These calibrations may have been written…
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Portrait of John Van Nostrand Dorr (1872-1962)
- 1930s
Portrait of John Van Nostrand Dorr (1872-1962). In partnership with John Lundberg and A.D. Wilson, Van Nostrand Dorr owned the Lundberg, Dorr, & Wilson gold & silver mining operation in Terry, South Dakota. In 1916, he…
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Letter from Tadeusz Reichstein to Frank Stodola
- 1938-Mar-25
Concerns Stodola's request for reprints from Reichstein.
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Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to J. Bousquet
- 1938-Dec-06
Concerns modifications to the International Table of Isotopes for 1939.
- Addressee Bousquet, J.
- Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
- Contributor International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Subject Isotopes, Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Lutetium, Dempster, Arthur Jeffrey, Nobel Prize winners
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Letter from Richard Kuhn to Jean Gerard
- 1939-Jun-05
Concerns the appointment of M. F. Joliot-Curie to IUPAC's Committee on Atomic Weights and Isotopic Abundances.
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Letter from Glenn T. Seaborg to the IUPAC
- 1939-Oct-13
Concerns request for a copy of the Fourth Report of the Committee on Atoms of the International Union of Chemistry.
- Addressee International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Author Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999
- Contributor International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Subject Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Livingood, John J. (John Jacob), 1903-, Nobel Prize winners
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Portrait of Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944)
- After 1920 – 1944
Portrait of Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944), inventor of Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic.
- Manufacturer Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Portrait photography, Inventors, Bakelite, Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944, Plastics
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Portrait of Carroll A. Hochwalt (1900-1987)
- 1930s
Portrait of Carroll A. Hochwalt (1900-1987). Hochwalt worked as a chemical engineer for the General Motors Corporation before co-founding Thomas & Hochwalt Laboratories in partnership with Charles Allen Thomas in 1926.…
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Professor Wohler
- After 1840 – before 1940
A half-length portrait of Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), a German chemist.
- Artist Cook, Conrad
- After L'Allemand, Conrad, 1809-1880
- Subject Wöhler, Friedrich, 1800-1882