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| 2011: Marie Curie (Design - N Dabrowka; Engraver P Nazarkowski) |
Two stamps on a miniature sheet feature the two time Nobel Prizewinner Marie Curie, and show her Nobel medal and I'm assuming polonium which she discovered and isolated during her research on pitchblende (an ore of uranium). The sheet also shows the atomic structure of polonium.
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| 1959: 10th Anniversary of World Peace Council |
Frédéric Joliot worked as an assistant to Marie Curie at the Radium Institute where he fell in love with her daughter Irene. They married and combined their names so he became Frédéric Juliot Curie and they were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for the discovery of artificial radioactivity or "their synthesis of new radioactive elements" Their children are also scientists. The stamp is in recognition of his chairmanship of the World Peace Council.
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| 1997: Nobel Prize (Design - C F Reutersward; Engraver - Czeslaw Slania) |
I'll finish with Alfred Nobel himself which was part of a Swiss set of stamps jointly issued with Sweden. Nobel held 350 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. The synthetic chemical element Nobelium, a radioactive metal, was named after him. I'm not sure what the diagram on the stamp is perhaps it is a blasting bunker at his nitroglycerin factory. The Swiss could not have done without his dynamite when they built the St Gothard Tunnel through the Swiss Alps in the 1870s so the diagram could even be of a tunnel.
Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Science - discover more at See It On A Postcard
4 comments:
Madame Curie has left quite an astonishing legacy, on several levels. This is quite a nice sheet.
Alfred is sporting an impressive - and almost scary - beard!
What a great post. Perhaps my Nobel Prize winners go well with these. Thanks for including Madame Curie's quote.
Marie Curie is one of my heroes. So nice to see the sheet.
I love that the stamp shows Madame Curie working. I'd like to see more women scientists on stamps!
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