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Commemorative stamp of
Mendel's discoveries. Mendel died in
Brno, Czech Republic today, Czechoslovakia around 1965,
country and year of issue of this stamp. There is a pea plant and a
replicating double helix. Since the details of DNA replication
where not known at that time, the drawing is incorrect (see 1984
Tunisia
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Commemorative stamp of
the centenary of Mendel's death. Mendel was born in Silesia, and he
lived and died in the Augustine monastery of Brünn (Brno), when
was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hence, he
was austrian, as he wrote the results of his research in German. In the
stamp can be seen the crosses showing first Mendel law. Austria, 1984. |
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Germany also commemorated
the centenary of Mendel with this stamp of 1984. Featuring a cross with
the genotypes RR,
Rr, rr. |
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These Vatican stamps are
very interesting. They celebrate the centenary of the death of Mendel,
founder of Genetics and augustinian friar (that is the relation to the
Vatican). It shows the result of one of the crosses which he made with
the pea, and a picture of the plant. Vatican City, 1984. |
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The Free State of Danzig
(Gdansk) remembered Mendel in 1939, with the first stamp dedicated as
far as I know. The city of Danzig was a free state between the two
world wars (1919-1939). Now it belongs to Poland. The text is interesting: "healthy children, happy future", which relation to Genetics has some eugenics meaning. This stamp is part of a set dedicated to scientific research, and the last issue of this state before the german invasion by Hitler in 1939. |
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The centenary of Mendel's
death was remembered with this stamp from Transkei, 1983. Transkei, or
East Sud-African Republic, was reincorporated to the Sud-African
Republic in 1994 after apartheid banning. The stamp mentions the
"principles of heredity" which Mendel stablished in 1865. |
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These stamps celebrate
the Australian Genetics advancements (down, kangaroo chromosomes) and
the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA structure. Australia, 2003. |
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Commemorative stamps of
human genome sequencing, and its applications. Issued for the 50th
anniversary of DNA structure discovery. Cartoons are by Peter Brooks,
caricaturist of The Times. DNA structure was discovered in Cambridge
(UK). This stamps refers to the small difference between man and his
closest relatives. Comparative Genetics. 2003, United Kingdom (Since stamps were invented in UK, the name of the country does not show on their stamps). |
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Cracking the code. 2003. United
Kingdom. |
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The End of the Beginning.
The whole secuence of the human genome is only the beginning. As the
cartoons shows, it will be part of a bigger puzzle. 2003.
United Kingdom. |
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Genetic Engineering. 2003.
United Kingdom. Not yet... |
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Medical Futures. 2003.
United Kingdom. In fact, who does know them? |
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Decoding DNA. It shows
sculptures by M. Curtis. 1999. United
Kingdom. |
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It
is said that this is the first stamp where the double helix first
appeared; but it is unproperly
twisted to the left (a very common mistake, as Tom Schneider shows).
The same mistake was made in a stamp twice, 30 and 38 years later. Macromolecules of the living cell. 1964. Israel. |
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Three stamps dedicated to
the botanist and geneticist Nicolai I. Vavilov,
the one from 1987 celebrating the centenary of his birth. Vavilov was arrested because his defense of Genetics on agriculture studies, victim of Lysenko, who "prohibited" Genetics in the USSR since it was "bourgeois" and "anti-revolutionary". Vavilov was imprisoned and he died in jail, after very poor life conditions. After Stalin death, Vavilov was rehabilitated and now institutes, societies and scientific centres have taken his name. He was a martyr of Genetics. 1977, 1987, USSR. 2000 Russia.  |
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Sweden
issued in 1989
four stamps commemotaring four Nobel prizes related to Genetics: Morgan
(1933), for its work on Drosophila (the fruit fly); Watson, Crick and
Wilkins (1962) for the discovery of the DNA structure; Arber, Nathans
and Smith (1978) for the discovery of restriction enzymes which allowed
Genetics Engineering; and McClintock (1983) for its work on corn
jumping genes (transposons). Every of those stamps have motifs related
to hte discoveries of the researchers. |
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Remembering 1959 Nobel
prize Severo Ochoa, "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the
biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid",
Sweden issued this stamp in 2003. |
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The stamp above was
issued jointly with Spain, Ochoa's country of origin, although his
research was carried out in USA. 2003. |
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The stamp above not was
the first dedicated to Ochoa by Spain. This is an issue of 1994, for
his death in 1993. In every Ochoa's stamps there is a DNA double helix. |
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This stamp cellebrates
the 4th Molecular Biology School. It shows a replicating DNA molecule,
with the lag and lead strands correctly drawn. Tunisia, 1984. |
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