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Last Modified: 2 February, 2009 Comments: Maiken Naylor

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY AND LIGHT STAMPS

from Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Lightning - Great Britain 1896
Thales - Greece 1784
Alhazen - Pakistan 281.
Franklin - United States 1073.
Divis - Czechoslovakia 662
Volta - Italy 1873, 190
Oersted - Denmark 471
Ohm - Germany 1829
Ampere - Monaco 1001, DDR 1629%.
Fraunhofer - Germany 1501
Faraday - Great Britain 1360%
Helmholtz - Germany 1867%.
Kirchhoff - Germany Berlin 9N345OS80
Maxwell - Nicaragua 881#; Mexico C332
Heinrich Hertz - Germany 1393; Czechoslovakia 953; Germany 1822%.
Michelson - Sweden 769
Tesla - Czechoslovakia 949; Yugoslavia 136.
Marconi - Great Britain 1627; Czechoslovakia 952.
Raman - India 548.
Watson-Watt (Radar) - Great Britain 1362.
Herzberg - Canada
Line spectrum - Canada 613.

#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