Record

RefNoST/6
LevelSubFonds
TitleAssorted Stamps of the world commemorating Fellows and scientific achievements
Datend
DescriptionContains;
1. 12 Stamps
Argentina - Dr Bernardo Houssay [FRS], Nobel Prize for Medicine 1947
Eire - Robert Boyle [FRS] and his Air pump
Falkland Islands Dependencies - Dumont Durville 1790-1842 and showing bird Duwillen antarctica
Falkland Island Dependencies - Sir Joseph Banks [FRS] 1743-1820 and bird Pachiptyla desolata banksi
The Gambia - Kenichi Fukui [ForFRS], Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1981
Gabon (Republique Gabonaise) - Francis W Ashton , Chemistry, 1922
Maldives - Louis V de Broglie, 1929, Physics, France
Maldives - Sir James Chadwick [FRS], 1935, Physics, Great Britain
Mauritius - Sir Thomas Lewis [FRS]. [with postmark]
Polynesie Francaise - images of D Karl Solander [FRS] and Anders Sparrman
Great Britain - Millennium 99/37, Test tube baby, A Gormley
USA - portait of Joseph Priestley FRS

2. 14 Cut out reproductions of stamps commemorating Fellows and scientific discoveries
Argentina - Dr Bernard Houssay [FRS], Nobel Prize winner for Medicine 1947
Falkland Island Dependencies - portrait of Johann Reinhold Foster FRS 1729-1728, and bird Aptenodytes patogonicus (King Penguin)
France (Republique Francaise) portrait of Andre Marie Ampere [FRS] 1775-1836
Guyana - Edgar D Adrian [FRS] 1889-1977, Medicine 1932, 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize
Republika Demokratika Malagasy -Portrait of Sir Charles Sherrigton [FRS] 1932 , Otto Loewi [FRS] 1936, Prix Nobel Neurophysologie
Maldives - portrait of Rodney R Porter [FRS], 1972 Physiology or Medicine, Great Britain [Nobel Prize]
Malta - Lazzaro Spallanzani [FRS], 1729-1799
Netherlands - portrait of F Zernike [FRS] Nobel Prize 1953 in his laboratory
San Marino - portrait of J C Maxwell [FRS], with formula. Centenary of radio.
St Vincent and the Grenadines - image of Captain Bligh handing over the breadfruit plant to a native
Republique du Tchad [Chad] - Portrait of Sir James W Black [FRS] prix nobel medecine 1988
Great Britain - Portrait of James Watt [FRS], steam engineering and his engine
Great Britain -image of Charles Babbage [FRS], computer
Great Britain - image of arm and brain and wording 'Scanning electron microscope'
Extent26 items
PhysicalDescriptionStamps; cut out printed images of stamps
AccessStatusOpen
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