Marshall Islands
2012
"Great scientist of the world"
Issue Date |
23.04.2012 |
ID |
Michel: Scott: Stanley
Gibbons: Yvert: UPU:
Category: Co |
Author |
Original Artwork: Ivan Sushchenko |
Stamps in set |
20 |
Value |
US$ .45 -
Charles Darwin
US$ .45 - William Harvey
US$ .45 - Robert Boyle
US$ .45 - Johannes Kepler
US$ .45 - Thomas Edison
US$ .45 - Andre-Marie Ampere
US$ .45 - Michael Faraday
US$ .45 - Jons Jacob Berzelius
US$ .45 - James Watt
US$ .45 - Galileo Galilei
US$ .45 - Andreas Vesalius
US$ .45 - Antoine Lavoisier
US$ .45 - Dmitry Mendeleyev
US$ .45 - Carl Gauss
US$ .45 - Isaac Newton
US$ .45 - Gregor Mendel
US$ .45 - John Dalton
US$ .45 - Carl Linnaeus
US$ .45 - Robert Fulton
US$ .45 - William Thomson, Baron Kelvin |
Size (width x height) |
Overall Sheet Size: 224 mm x 154mm
Size of Stamps: 40mm x 31mm |
Layout |
Sheet of 20 stamps |
Products |
FDC x4 |
Paper |
unwatermarked gummed paper |
Perforation |
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Print Technique |
Black, cyan,
magenta, yellow by offset lithography
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Printed by |
Pioneer Printing, Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S.A. |
Quantity |
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Issuing Authority |
Marshall Islands Postal Service Authority |
On April 23, 2012, the Marshall Islands Postal Service issues 20 new
stamps featuring great scientists of history. History has seen many
great scientists who have made priceless contributions to the
advancement of mankind, and in 2012 the Republic of the Marshall
Islands issued new stamps to honor 20 of the greatest scientists with Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaues among them.
Darwin, for instance, is famous for his theory of evolution
through natural selection, while Edison is best known for inventing the
incandescent light bulb. Newton is remembered for postulating his theory
of gravity, and Linnaeus is renowned for developing a system to
classify living things.
Among this great personalities Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus can be
consider as contributors to Paleontology science.
Charles
Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 12 February
1809,
to a wealthy and well-connected family. He had initially planned to
study medicine at Edinburgh University but later switched to Divinity
at Cambridge encouraged a passion for natural science. His five-year
voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose
observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian
ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as
a popular author. Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife
and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin investigated the
transmutation of species and conceived his theory of natural selection
in 1838. Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he
needed time for extensive research and his geological work had
priority. He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel
Wallace sent him an essay which described the same idea, prompting
immediate joint publication of both of their theories.
His 1859 book On the Origin of Species established evolutionary descent
with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of
diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual
selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,
followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His
research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final
book, he examined earthworms and their effect on
soil.

The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the
scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime,
while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the
primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now
forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form,
Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life
sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life.
In recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was one of only
five
19th-century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral,
and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac
Newton.
Darwin's work had far-reaching impacts on the development of
Paleontology, Antropology and many other Biology and Psyology related
scients.
Carl Linnaeus,
also known after his ennoblement as About this sound
Carl von Linne , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who
laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature
uses in all biology related sinces (include Paleontology).
He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered
one of the fathers of modern ecology.
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