09:59 02 October 2013
It's a red-letter day for philatelists. The world's largest collection of stamps is now on display at the National Postal Museum in Washington DC. We have picked six stamps for science lovers: some that celebrate scientific achievement, others to commiserate technological disaster. We've included stamps that have been to the moon and an envelope were rescued from the fiery wreckage of the Hindenburg.
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He needs little introduction. Albert Einstein's face graced this US stamp on 14 March 1966 as part of the Prominent Americans series. Einstein went into print alongside Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to gain a medical degree from a US medical school. Einstein's stamp was worth 8 cents – trumping Lincoln's, which cost only 4.
