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John Bardeen.... 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 physicist John Bardeen 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 Bardeen, two-time recipient of
the Nobel Prize first in 1956 for the transistor and in 1972 for the
BCS theory. The cachet is printed on silk, the luster lending
an-almost three-dimensional quality to the portrait. Collectible,
historic, this cover honors a man who appeared on Life Magazine's 1990
list of the '100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century.'
Double matted in blue and white, it's sized to fit a standard 8x10 frame. ***Certificate of Authenticity Included***
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