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Ilia A. Guzei
The provocative saying “All science is either physics or stamp collecting” is attributed to the Nobel Prize laureate physicist Ernest Rutherford. Any self-respecting chemist may take an issue with this statement, but not this article; the subject of this essay is a postage stamp that reconciles physics and philately – it depicts the likeness of a famous physicist, the winner of the very first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901, his laboratory, and a radiograph.
