| 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 | |
| Print Technique |
Black, cyan, magenta, yellow by offset lithography |
| Printed by | Pioneer Printing, Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S.A. |
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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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