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Postage stamp from Martinique commemorating Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie's 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • 1977

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Stamp depicts Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, along with a model of an unidentified molecule.

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  • Gyula László Vásárhelyi
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 2

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Scientific Biography
Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot

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Vásárhelyi, Gyula László. “Postage Stamp from Martinique Commemorating Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie's 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.” Martinique, 1977. Witco Stamp Collection, Box 2. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/08612n601.

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