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34c Enrico Fermi single
Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued a 34-cent Enrico Fermi commemorative stamp in Chicago, Illinois, on September 29, 2001. The stamp, designed and illustrated by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, Arizona, went on sale nationwide September 30, 2001.
- Enrico Fermi, a naturalized US citizen and one of the preeminent physicists of the atomic age, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 for his discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons. In 1944, he moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to assist in the direction of the Manhattan Project's scientific team. On November 16, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission gave Dr. Fermi a "special award for his lifetime of accomplishments in physics and for the development of atomic energy." This stamp commemorates the centenary of his birth on September 29, 1901, in Rome, Italy.
- Sterling Sommer printed 30 million stamps in the offset process with microprinting "USPS." The stamp was produced in panes of twenty.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (August 23, 2001).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- September 29, 2001
- Object number
- 2002.2010.8
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink; adhesive
- Dimensions
- 4 x 2.5 cm (1 9/16 x 1 in.)
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3533
- Topic
- Science
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2002.2010.8
- Usage
- Not determined
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