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This digital collection features selected postage stamps and other philatelic materials depicting various aspects of science: from molecules and chemical reactions to portraits of Nobel Prize laureates. Materials in this collection, dating from 1887 to 2000, include stamps and first day covers, as well as commemorative and postmarked envelopes and postcards. Most of the items were selected from the Witco Stamp Collection in the Institute's archives.

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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."

    • Subject Postage stamps, Ghana, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Metric system
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    First Day Cover commemorating the Accra Assembly - The World Without the Bomb, Ghana

    • 1962

    Depicts logo of the Accra Assembly held in Ghana on June 21-28, 1962, together with three postage stamps of Ghana.

    • Creator Of Work Ghana Philatelic Agency
    • Subject Postage stamps, Ghana, Accra Assembly (Organization), Ghana--Accra, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Nuclear nonproliferation, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately)
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    Ghanaian postage stamp commemorating Albert Einstein

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    UNESCO stamp depicting Albert Einstein and his formula for mass-energy equivalence.

    • Subject Postage stamps, Ghana, Unesco, Special relativity (Physics), Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists

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