Scientists

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (1771-1848), a Uruguayan priest, naturalist and botanist who founded the National Library, printed by lithography, and issued by Uruguay on January 24, 1963 as one of a set of two similar stamps honoring the scientist, Scott No. 694, plus an image of a painted portrait of Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga which was surely a model for this stamp's design.

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Here is an image of a stamp honoring Belgian mathematician, statistician, astronomer and sociologist Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874), designed after a portrait (1822) by Belgian (Southern Netherlands) Neo-Classical artist Joseph Denis Odevaere (1875-1830), combined engraved by Charles Leclercqz (1922-2013) and photogravure, and issued by Belgium on December 14, 1974 to commemorate Adolphe Quetelet's death centenary, Scott No. 885.

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Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of French geologist and geographer Charles Vélain (1845-1925), designed and engraved by French artist Jacky Larrivière (1946- ), and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on January 1, 2006, Scott No. 363, plus an image of a geological map of Amsterdam Island created by Charles Vélain.

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Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Constantin Freiherr von Economo (1876-1931), designed by Adalbert Pilch (1917-2004), engraved by Alfred Nefe (1923- ), and issued by Austria on August 23, 1976 to commemorate the doctor's birth centenary, Scott No. 1040, plus a photograph of Constantin von Economo in 1910.

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Here is an image of an airmail stamp featuring a portrait of Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science Alexander von Humboldt FRS (1769-1859), printed by photogravure (Courvoisier S.A.), and issued by Ecuador on May 6, 1959 to commemorate the centenary of the scientist's death, Scott No. C341, plus an image of a self-portrait (1814) by Alexander von Humboldt.

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Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902), a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known as "the father of modern pathology," designed by German illustrator Gerhard Wilhelm August Stauf (1924-1996), engraved by Helmut Nebel, and issued by East Germany (DDR) on October 13, 1971, Scott No. 1274A, Michel No. 1707, plus an image of a photograph of Dr. Rudolf Virchow. Bonus: Signature.

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Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp featuring a profile portrait of Dutch physician Gerard van Swieten (1700-1772), best known for his leadership in reforming the Austrian health service and medical university education, designed by Wilhelm Dachauer (1881-1951), engraved by Ferdinand Lorber (1883-1957), and issued by Austria on December 5, 1937, Scott No. B156, plus an image of a profile portrait of Gerard van Swieten looking in the opposite direction. Fun fact: In 1755 Gerard van Swieten was assigned by Empress Maria Theresa to investigate Moravian folk beliefs about vampires; van Swieten viewed the vampire myth as a "barbarism of ignorance" and his aim was to eradicate it.

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Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández (1764-1849), a Spanish–Mexican scientist and naturalist who in 1801 discovered compounds of the element vanadium (V), which he named in honor of Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of love and beauty, printed by photogravure, and issued by Mexico on February 18, 1965 to commemorate the bicentenary of the scientist's birth, Scott No. 961, plus an image of a painted portrait of Andrés Manuel del Río which may have been a model for this stamp's design.

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Syrian Republic
1st November 1997
Science Week

Jabir ibn Haijan - alchemist

Syrian Republic
2nd November 1996
Science Week

Sons of Musa ibn Shaker ("Bana Musa")

Syrian Republic
6th November 1993
Science Week

Ibn al-Bittar (chemist)

Syrian Republic
7th November 1992
Science Week

Sebtt al-Mardini (astronomer)

Centenary of the Mendeleev's Periodic table.

Single stamp + Souvenir sheet, Soviet Union 1969.

Michel #3634 / Yvert #3501
Michel #Block 56 / Yvert #BF55

Here is a postcard sent by Dutch Jewish nuclear physicist Dr. Samuel Abraham Goudsmit's second wife Irene to her uncle, Dr. Hans Bejach on the occasion of Dr. Goudsmit having received the Max Planck Medal in Frankfurt A.M., Germany on 4 October, 1965.

From the NNDB website, "During WWII he performed research at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, but most importantly served as the chief of the ALSOS group for the Manhattan Project, charged with assessing the German ability to build an atomic bomb."

Scientists and Explorers

Set of 6 stamps, East Germany (DDR) 1979.
Michel #2406-11 / Yvert #2073-78

Otto Hahn (1879 – 1968) - chemist
Max von Laue (1879 – 1960) - physicist
Arthur Scheunert (1879 - 1957) - veterinarian

Friedrich August Kekulé (1829 - 1896) - organic chemist
Georg Forster (1754 - 1794) - naturalist, ethnologist
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 – 1781) - writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic