Physicians in Stamps
Physicians in Stamps
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Physicians are often portrayed for scintific achievement to medicine or for their humanitarian contributions. Of the latter Albert Schwietzer is frequently depicted. Click on any of the stamp images to enlarge it. |
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Wilhelm K. Roentgen (1845-1925) discoverer of the x-ray for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics. German Democratic Republic, 1965. |
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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a humanitarian physician. 100th anniversary of his birth. Federal Republic of Germany, 1975. |
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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), fighter against war, nuclear death, and promoter of reverence for life. German Democratic Republic, 1965. |
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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Republic of Congo. 1966. |
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Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), father of anatomy. Belgium, 1942. |
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Rudolf L.K. Virchow (1821-1902), pathologist, politician, and administrator. Federal Republic of Germany, 1953. |
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Hugh Williamson signing of the Constitution scene. United States, 1937. |
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Harvey Cushing (1869-1839), eminent neurosurgeon. United States, 1988. |
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Pierre Curie (1859-1906) discover of radioactivity, and Marie Curie (1867-1934) discoverer of radium. France, 1938. |
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Charles R. Drew, M.D. United States, n.d. |
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Janusz Korczak, (1878-1942). Physician and writer of children’s stories, practiced in the Warsaw ghetto and was executed 1942. Federal Republic of Germany, 1978. |
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August S. Krogh (1874-1949), physiologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for work on capillaries. Denmark, 1980 |
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Mary Walker, M.D. (1832-1919), Army surgeon and Medal of Honor winner. United States, 1982 |
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Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) discoverer of the laws of inheritence. Austria, 1984. |
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Paul Dudley White (1886-1973), cardiologist. United States, 1986. |
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Walter Reed (1851-1902), head of the commission in Cuba in 1899 that established the mosquito as the vector for yellow fever. United States, 1940. |
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Earle Christian Grafton Page (1880-1961), internist, surgeon, politician and Prime Minister. Australia, 1975. |
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Cecilia Grierson (1859-1934), first female physician in Argentina. Argentina, 1967. |
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Jan A. Komensky (John AmosComenius, 1592-1671). Introduced measures to control plague. Czechoslovakia, 1957. |
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Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1920), first woman physician in the United States in 1849. United States, 1974. |