Science On Stamps

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…

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 Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist and the founder of the Charitable Society of the Friends of Science.

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

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.

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

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 Alexander Fleming, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin.

Cachet shows the Curie laboratory in Paris, and stamps depict Marie Curie with a bowl of radium.

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.

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.

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…

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.)

Depicts Isaac Newton.

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

Depicts Antoine Lavoisier, the "creator of modern chemistry."

Stamp issued by the Yemen Arab Republic depicting Avicenna, red roses, and the new World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva completed in 1966.

Stamp depicts measuring instruments.

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

Stamp from the inauguration of Democritus Nuclear Research Centre in Agia Paraskevi. Depicts ancient Greek philosopher Democritus and a model of an atom.

Stamp depicts chemical glassware, electron microscope, molecule, and microscopic view of cell.

Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur.

Cachet, stamp, and postmark depict Louis Pasteur.

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.