Stephen Hawking
Zambia, 2000
On a Millennium sheet of 18 stamps celebrating highlights from the years 1950 to
2000, Stephen Hawking is pictured against a background of an equation-filled
blackboard and the famous Whirlpool spiral galaxy, M51, floating above. The
text in the margin of the sheet says: “Stephen Hawking showed that Black Holes emitted radiation and provided equations
charting the universe’s expansion from a single point to it’s [sic] current size over fifteen billion years.”
Stanley Gibbons no.: Not numbered.
Palau, 2000
A young Hawking, before the crippling effects of his motor neurone disease took
hold, is accompanied by a diagram of the geometry of space around a black hole
on this stamp from Palau, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is part
of a sheet titled Visionaries of the Twentieth Century.
Stanley Gibbons no. 1634.
Djibouti, 2006
In 2006 the northeast African country of Djibouti produced a series of sheets
commemorating great scientists from various eras. The four-pane sheet devoted
to the 20th century depicted Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble,
and Stephen Hawking.
Stanley Gibbons no. n/a
Mozambique, 2008
Stephen Hawking in wheelchair with trademark voice synthesizer and screen, one
of a sheet of four stamps issued in 2008 by Mozambique to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the founding of NASA. The picture was taken at a NASA lecture given by Hawking in 2008 titled Why We Should Go Into Space.
Stanley Gibbons no. to come
