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. The scan comes from Joachim Reinhardt’s website
of physics-related stamps.
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
