History of Physics in Philately

Physics and Philately

1. Stamps associated with crystallography

Most of these were shown at the 12 November 2012 HoP meeting

   NaCl structure Structure of Sodium Chloride on a stamp issued by the UK in 1977 in a series to commemmorate 100 years of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the award of the Nobel prize to the Braggs in 1915 for discovering the structure using X-rays.
The Institute of Chemistry was founded in 1877. It combined with the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry to form the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1972.



snowflake A snowflake from the series issued 5th September 1989 by the UK commemmorating 150 years of the Royal Microscopical Society



Dorothy Hodgkin
The UK Post Office issued a series of 4 stamps Twentieth Century Women of Acheivment. on 6 August 1996
The 20p value stamp shows a portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin and part of a model of Vitamin B12. She is the first British woman to be awarded a Scientific Nobel Prize for measuring structures of biological interest such as insulin.



Double helix The UK Post Office issued a 4 stamps of 'Scientists Tales' on 3 August 1999 the 19p value stamp commemmorated the Discovery of the Double Helical Structure of DNA, for which Crick, Watson and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize. A fourth collaborator, Rosalind Franklin, an experienced crystallographer took the vital photograph which clearly showed the structure, but she died before the Nobel Prize was awarded.

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		Structure of Sodium Chloride on a stamp issued by the UK in 1977 in a series to commemmorate 100 years of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the award of the Nobel prize to the Braggs in 1915 for discovering the structure using X-rays. The Institute of Chemistry was founded in 1877. It combined with the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry to form the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1972.
		A snowflake from the series issued 5th September 1989 by the UK commemmorating 150 years of the Royal Microscopical Society
		The UK Post Office issued a series of 4 stamps Twentieth Century Women of Acheivment. on 6 August 1996 The 20p value stamp shows a portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin and part of a model of Vitamin B12. She is the first British woman to be awarded a Scientific Nobel Prize for measuring structures of biological interest such as insulin.
		The UK Post Office issued a 4 stamps of 'Scientists Tales' on 3 August 1999 the 19p value stamp commemmorated the Discovery of the Double Helical Structure of DNA, for which Crick, Watson and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize. A fourth collaborator, Rosalind Franklin, an experienced crystallographer took the vital photograph which clearly showed the structure, but she died before the Nobel Prize was awarded.