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First day cover commemorating Phénix fast breeder reactor
Box 4- 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
Box 4- 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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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Louis Jacques Thénard
Box 5- 1957
Depicts Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist and the founder of the Société de Secours des Amis des Sciences.
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Chadian postage stamp commemorating Alexander Fleming's Nobel Prize in Medicine
Box 3- Undated
Depicts Alexander Fleming, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin.
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Postcard with French postal stamps commemorating the centenary of the birth of Marie Curie
Box 2- 1967
Cachet shows the Curie laboratory in Paris, and stamps depict Marie Curie with a bowl of radium.
- Artist Autier, Ph., Pheulpin, Jean
- Engraver Pheulpin, Jean
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women in physics, France, Women scientists, Chemists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Cachets (Philately), Physicists, Postage stamps, Postcards, Women physical scientists, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Louis Pasteur
Box 2- After 1885 – before 1953
Postcard image is a reproduction of Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt's famed portrait "Pasteur Dans Son Laboratoire" [Pasteur In His Laboratory]. The portrait depicts Pasteur in his laboratory at the rue d'Ulm,…
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Isaac Newton
Box 1- Undated
Depicts Isaac Newton.
- Artist Lalau, Maurice
- Engraver Munier, Pierre
- Subject Postage stamps, Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, France, Postcards, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps
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First Day Cover commemorating airmail and Israeli exports
Box 1- 1968
Stamp depicts Boeing 707, chemical apparatus, and heavy oxygen isotopes.
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating the 2nd centenary of the birth of Antoine Lavoisier
Box 1- Circa 1943
Depicts Antoine Lavoisier, the "creator of modern chemistry."
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Canadian postage stamp depicting chemical industry
Box 1- 1956
Stamp depicts aspects of chemistry and related sciences. The design depicting a laboratory vessel is illustrative of the scientific equipment used widely for research in the chemical industry. A representative chemical…
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French postage stamp commemorating Henri-Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville's work with aluminium
Box 7- 1955-Mar-07
On March 7, 1955, France issued a set of six stamps under the theme "Famous Inventors." One of these stamps featured Sainte-Claire Deville who created metallic aluminum in 1855. Stamp depicts modern uses of aluminum…
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First Day Cover commemorating Claude-Louis Berthollet
Box 6- 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 United Nations efforts for the cessation of nuclear testing and preservation of humanity
Box 4- 1964
Cachet and stamp depict a mushroom cloud from a nuclear weapons test. Cachet was created by Fleetwood and the stamp was commissioned by the United Nations Postal Administration. Postmark depicts the United Nations…
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First Day Cover commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of insulin
Box 3- 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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Congolese postage stamp commemorating Alexander Fleming's Nobel Prize in Medicine
Box 3- After 1970 – before 1991
Stamp depicts Alexander Fleming and penicillin.
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First Day Cover commemorating Paul Sabatier
Box 3- 1956
Cachet depicts chemical apparatus used in the petroleum industry. Stamp depicts Paul Sabatier, "founder of catalytic chemistry."
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First Day Cover commemorating Victor Grignard
Box 3- 1971
Cachet, semipostal stamp, and postmark feature a portrait of the chemist, François Auguste Victor Grignard. The cachet and stamp also depict the apparatus Grignard used to produce the Grignard reaction, a new method for…
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Postage stamp on souvenir sheet from the Ivory Coast commemorating Max Planck's Nobel Prize in Physics
Box 3- 1978
Stamp on souvenir sheet depicting Max Planck, a rocket, and the planet Earth. Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 (the stamp incorrectly identifies his Nobel Prize as 1914). Max Planck is known as the father…
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First Day Cover honoring Ernest Rutherford
Box 2- 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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Postage stamp from the Ivory Coast commemorating Svante August Arrhenius's Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Box 2- 1978
Stamp commemorating the Swedish chemist, Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), whose portrait is featured on the stamp. Arrhenius is considered by some to be the father of physical chemistry and won the 1903 Nobel Prize in…
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Postage stamp from Monaco commemorating Louis Pasteur
Box 2- 1972
Stamp depicts French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, along with boy receiving rabies vaccination, livestock, and chemical apparatuses.
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Postage stamp from Martinique commemorating Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie's 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Box 2- 1977
Stamp depicts Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, along with a model of an unidentified molecule.
- Artist Vásárhelyi, Gyula László 1929-
- Subject Women in science, Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956, Postage stamps, Women physicists, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, Physicists, Martinique, Women in chemistry, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Postage stamps on a souvenir sheet from Togo commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein
Box 2- 1979
Depicts Albert Einstein and the formula for special relativity.
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Postage stamp from Monaco commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie
Box 2- 1967
Stamp depicts a profile of Marie Curie along with various scientific instruments.
- Artist Lambert, Perrette
- Engraver Pheulpin, Jean
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Monaco, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Afghani postage stamps commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie
Box 2- 1963
Stamps depict Pierre and Marie Curie and are from a series put out by the Afghan Red Crescent Society.
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women in physics, Women scientists, Afghanistan, Chemists, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Postage stamps, Women Nobel Prize winners
