Science On Stamps

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,…

Depicts a drawing of Albert Einstein, along with a Nobel Prize medal and an atom.

Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur.

Stamp depicts profile of Fritz Haber who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas, which allowed for the large-scale synthesis of…

United States postage stamp honoring Dr. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974), an American obstetrical anesthesiologist best known as the inventor of the Apgar Score used to quickly assess the health of a newborn child…

Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur.

Stamp depicts Alexander Fleming and penicillin.

Depicts Joseph Priestley, often credited for the discovery of oxygen.

Philatelic First Day Cover commemorating American marine biologist, author, and conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964). Part of the "Great Americans Series," the envelope bears the postmark of Springdale,…

Philatelic First Day Cover honoring American social worker and activist Emily Bissell (1861-1948), best known for her work to combat tuberculosis and for introducing Christmas Seals to the United States. The cover bears…

Depicts Albert Einstein and his formula for mass-energy equivalence.

Stamp depicts August Kekule with the chemical structure of a benzene ring.

Stamp depicts Albert Einstein playing a violin.

Stamp depicts the the Einstein Tower (Einsteinturm), an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany. It houses a solar telescope designed by the astronomer Erwin Finlay-Freundlich…

Stamp depicts a portrait of Albert Einstein.

Cachet created by Colorano is a silk depiction of Rosalyn S. Yalow with text that describes the work which earned her the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Part of the Women's History Series (No. 83) by the National…

Depicts Albert Einstein and the formula for special relativity.

Cachet depicts Otto Hahn's equipment and the nuclear fission of uranium atoms. Stamp shows Hahn's diagram of the splitting of the uranium nucleus. Hahn was the Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1944.

Stamp depicts Albert Einstein and J. R. MacDonald seated at a table in Berlin, Germany in 1931.

Depicts Fritz Haber and Max Planck, Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry and Physics.

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…

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…

Stamp depicts Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, along with a model of an unidentified molecule.

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…

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).