PHYSICS STAMPS

from Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Democritus - Greece 717
Archimedes - Nicaragua C765# ; Italy 1559
Guericke - DDR 1793, B154.
Torricelli - Italy 754#.
Boyle - Ireland 492.
Huygens - Netherlands B36, 729, B365
Pascal - France 1038#.
Watt - Wallis et Futuna 341, Mali 538
Doppler - Austria 1563
Mach - Austria 1419, United States 3173
Foucault - France 871%, 2436
Kamerlingh Onnes - Sweden 1028.
Kapitsa - Russia 6225
Tsiolkovsky - Russia 1582; Nicaragua 880#.

#For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Jeff Miller's Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

%For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Joachim Reinhardt's Physics-Related Stamps

Sci-Philately: A Selective History of Science on Stamps
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