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Gerty Cori.... On March 6, 2008, the USPS issued a set of stamps honoring another set of four American Scientists - Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, Gerty Cori, and Edwin Hubble. Shown here is a genuine First Day Cover, an envelope with the stamp for American Biochemist Gerty Cori cancelled from the city of issue (New York, NY) on the first day of issue
captioned above. Note the special 'atom' postmark created to cancel
this set of stamps on their 'birthday', featuring a unique font and a
microscope.
The full-color cachet (artwork
on the envelope) depicts a portrait of Cori in her lab. She received
the Nobel prize for the discovery of how glycogen is broken down and
resynthesized as a store and a source of energy. She is the third woman
to have won a Nobel prize in science and the first American to do so.
The cachet is printed on silk, the luster lending an-almost three-dimensional quality to the portrait.
Double matted in green and white, it's sized to fit a standard 8x10 frame. ***Certificate of Authenticity Included***
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