Science On Stamps

Philatelic First Day Cover honoring American agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver (1864?-1943). The envelope features an illustrated rendering of Carver and the George Washington Carver Museum in…

Philatelic First Day Cover honoring American agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver (1864?-1943). The envelope features an illustrated rendering of Carver and the Tuskegee Institute, as well as a…

Colorano cachet includes a silk depiction of two alchemists in a laboratory. Stamp depicts chemical glassware and fluids.

Depicts the Salinas Salt Springs in the Philippines.

Depicts Justus von Liebig, known for his work in agricultural and organic chemistry.

Stamps depict Niels Bohr, the equation for the Bohr frequency condition (an equation relating to light frequency and electrons), and a diagram of the Bohr model of a hydrogen atom.

Depicts awardees of the 1901 Nobel Prizes: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Physics, Sully Prudhomme in Literature, Emil von Behring in Physiology or Medicine, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in Chemistry.

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.)

Stamp depicts Boeing 707, chemical apparatus, and heavy oxygen isotopes.

Stamp depicts measuring instruments.

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

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…

Nine small postage stamps in various denominations issued in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur in 1922. The large semipostal stamp was issued in 1936 and includes a surtax for the…

Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict oil derricks.

Cachet and stamp depict oil pipeline and drilling derricks.

First day cover created by Artmaster includes cachet depicting a 3D image of a nonexistent molecule. Stamp depicts chemical glassware. Envelope is signed by Herman S. Bloch, the inventor of the catalytic converter.

Cachet created by ArtCraft depicts a male and female chemist working in a laboratory setting, with text reading, "A Century of Modern Chemistry." Cover signed by Glen Seaborg.

Depicts cement factory as well as high-rise buildings.

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.

Stamp depicts tapped rubber trees.

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…

Stamp depicts a sugar refinery along with a profile of Queen Elizabeth II in gold.

Cachet depicts a light beam passing through a prism to create a spectrum. Stamp depicts colors of the spectrum. The 15th Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale was held May 26-30, 1969 in Madrid, Spain.

Cachet depicts two chemists working in a laboratory.

Depicts three 19th-century silver miners.