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Fiscal Physicists

DEC 01, 1998
Physicists are among the select few individuals to be immortalized on banknotes.
Lloyd Kannenberg

I think it was Ernest Rutherford who once stated, “Science is divided into two categories, physics and stamp‐collecting.” If this were true, physicists who dabbled in philately on the side could claim sweeping scientific expertise. Alas, it isn’t and we can’t. But many physicists, in fact, are avid collectors of stamps (Hans Bethe among them, I understand) and of other things.

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References

  1. 1. R. Feller, International Bank Note Society Journal 36, 8 (1997).

  2. 2. A. Pick, Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, 3 vols., Krause Publications, Iola, Wise. (1995, 1996, 1998).

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Lloyd Kannenberg, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

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