Physics and UK Philately

Chronological list of UK stamps illustrating physics related topics.
Click on an underlined date to see an illustration of the stamp.

• 1966 Technology radio astronomy Jodrell Bank 4d and nuclear reactor 1/6 Windscale
• 1967 Discovery and invention radar screen 4d tv equipment 1/9
• 1969 British Post Office Technology - 1s pulse code modulation
• 1970 Anniversaries 1/9 William Herschel, Francis Baily (beads in eclipse), John Herschel see story in ODGCD Thatcham BAily
• 1972 Anniversaries broadscasting 5d horn loudspeaker 9p Oscillator and spark transitter
• 1976 Benjamin Franklin 11p
• 1977 Royal Society of Chemistry 13p crystallography NaCl
• 1978 Energy resources nuclear power 13p and Ur atom
• 1984 Centenery of Greenwich Meridian 28 June 4 stamps inc George Airy
• 1986 Halley's comet 4 stamps 18 Feb
• 1987 24 Mar 300th annivesary of Newton's Principia Mathematica
• 1989 5 Sep 150th anniversary of royal Microscopial Society 4 stamps
• 1990 18 Oct Astronomy 4 stamps
• 1991 5Feb 2 stamps with rainbow
• 1991 5 Mar Scientific acheivements Faraday, Babbage, Watson Watt, WHittle
• 1991 23 Apr Europe in space
• 1993 16 Feb 300th anniversary of Harrison who made clocks to enable ships at sea to know their longitude
• 1994 27 Sept Medical discoveries 4 stamps varying imaging techniques
• 1994 18 Jan the age of steam trains?
• 1995 5 Sept pioneers of Communications 4 stamps
• 1996 9 July famous women Dorothy Hodgkin
• 1997 10 June aircraft design
• 1998 24 Mar lighthouses
• 1999 12 Jan inventors 4 stamps 'Scientists Tales', this one is the discovery of the structure of DNA
• 1999 3 Aug 19p DNA 44p Faraday, 64 telescopes
• 1999 11Aug solar eclipse
• 2001 2 Oct centenary of Nobel Prizes
• 2003 25 Aug '50th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA'
  These are not shown here because they show phisicists in artistic
  imaginery drawings nothing like real physicists of today
• 2002 24 Sept Astronomy
• 2003 4 Nov ice sculptures
• 2007 13 Feb 50th anniversary of TV program the Sky at Night
• 2009 10 Mar Pioneers of the Industrial Revolution 8 stamps
• 2009 8 Oct Eminent britons Martin Ryle
• 2010 350th Anniversary of the Royal Society, included Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Rutherford, Dorothy Hodgkin, Nicholas Shackleton
• 2010 16 Sep Medical breakthroughs - computed tomography
• 2011 13 Oct Jodrell bank telescope
• 2012 23 Feb Britons of Distintion
• 2012 16 Oct Space Science
• 2014 25 Mar 100th birthdays including Max Perutz