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First Day Cover commemorating Victor Grignard

  • 1971

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Cachet, semipostal stamp, and postmark feature a portrait of the chemist, François Auguste Victor Grignard. The cachet and stamp also depict the apparatus Grignard used to produce the Grignard reaction, a new method for generating carbon-carbon bonds using magnesium to couple ketones and alkyl halides. The Nobel medal for chemistry is also depicted on the stamp.

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  • Jean Pheulpin
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 3

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Pheulpin, Jean. “First Day Cover Commemorating Victor Grignard.” France, 1971. Witco Stamp Collection, Box 3. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/qj72p719f.

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