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Facsimile of a Pasteur letter, with French postage stamps commemorating Louis Pasteur
- 1973-Jun-10
Semipostal stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur. Includes two postmarks depicting Pasteur, with Pasteur also featured on the first day of issue cancel. A semipostal stamp is a postage…
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First Day Cover commemorating chemistry
- 1976
Colorano cachet includes a silk depiction of two alchemists in a laboratory. Stamp depicts chemical glassware and fluids.
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Filipino postage stamp commemorating the Philippine Islands (Colonial Era)
- before 1946
Depicts the Salinas Salt Springs in the Philippines.
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Louis Jacques Thénard
- 1957
Depicts Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist and the founder of the Charitable Society of the Friends of Science.
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First Day Cover commemorating Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany
- 1957
Depicts Justus von Liebig, known for his work in agricultural and organic chemistry.
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First Day Cover commemorating Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1979
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.
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Envelope with Swedish postage stamps commemorating Fritz Haber and Max Planck
- 1978
Depicts Fritz Haber and Max Planck, Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry and Physics.
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First Day Cover commemorating Niels Bohr and the 50th anniversary of Bohr's atom theory
- 1963-Nov-21
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.
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Chadian postage stamp commemorating Alexander Fleming's Nobel Prize in Medicine
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
- 1967
Cachet shows the Curie laboratory in Paris, and stamps depict Marie Curie with a bowl of radium.
- Artist Autier, Ph. and Pheulpin, Jean
- Engraver Pheulpin, Jean
- Subject Chemists, Postmarks, France, Women in science, Commemorative postage stamps, Physicists, Postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women chemists, Women scientists, Women physicists, Women physical scientists, Women in chemistry, Cachets (Philately), Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Science on postage stamps, Postcards, and Women in physics
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Envelope with postage stamps commemorating 1901 Nobel Prize laureates
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.
- Artist Åsberg, Stig, 1909-1968
- Engraver Wallhorn, Arne
- Subject Postmarks, Sully Prudhomme, 1839-1907, Commemorative postage stamps, First day covers (Philately), Postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911, Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923, Cachets (Philately), Science on postage stamps, and Behring, Emil von, 1854-1917
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Postcard and Spanish postage stamp commemorating Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
- 1967
Depicts Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays, along with an X-ray tube and an atom.
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Louis Pasteur
Postcard image is of Albert Edelfelt's "Pasteur Dans Son Laboratoire" [Pasteur In His Laboratory]. Semipostal stamp depicts Louis Pasteur. Stamp includes surtax for the relief of unemployed intellectuals. A semipostal…
- Artist Hourriez, Georges
- Contributor Edelfelt, Albert, 1854-1905
- Subject Chemists, Postmarks, Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895, France, Semipostal stamps, Commemorative postage stamps, Postcards, Microbiologists, and Science on postage stamps
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Postage stamp from Saint Kitts and Nevis commemorating Marie Curie
- 1975
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.)
- Subject Chemists, Science on postage stamps, Saint Kitts and Nevis, International Women's Year (1975), Women in science, Commemorative postage stamps, Physicists, Postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women chemists, Anguilla, Women scientists, Women physicists, Women physical scientists, Women in chemistry, and Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Isaac Newton
Depicts Isaac Newton.
- Artist Lalau, Maurice
- Engraver Munier, Pierre
- Subject Postmarks, France, Commemorative postage stamps, Postage stamps, Postcards, Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, and Science on postage stamps
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First Day Cover commemorating airmail and Israeli exports
- 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
- circa 1943
Depicts Antoine Lavoisier, the "creator of modern chemistry."
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Postcard with Yemen postage stamp commemorating the inauguration of new World Health Organization offices
- 1966
Stamp issued by the Yemen Arab Republic depicting Avicenna, red roses, and the new World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva completed in 1966.
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First Day Cover commemorating Japan's use of the metric system
- 1959-Jun-05
Stamp depicts measuring instruments.
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American postage stamps commemorating Joseph Priestley
- 1983
Depicts Joseph Priestley, often credited for the discovery of oxygen.
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Greek postage stamp commemorating Democritus
- circa 1961
Stamp from the inauguration of Democritus Nuclear Research Centre in Agia Paraskevi. Depicts ancient Greek philosopher Democritus and a model of an atom.
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Soviet postage stamp commemorating the 5th International Biochemical Congress, Moscow
- 1961
Stamp depicts chemical glassware, electron microscope, molecule, and microscopic view of cell.
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First Day Cover commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur
- 1995-Sep-03
Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur.
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First Day Cover commemorating Louis Pasteur
- 1995-Jun-03
Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur.
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First Day Cover commemorating the 150th birthday of Louis Pasteur
- 1973-Jun-10
Cachet, semipostal stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur. A semipostal stamp is a postage stamp issued to raise money for a particular purpose (such as a charitable cause) and sold at a premium over the postal value.