Friday, November 6, 2009
Pauling and Bardeen on postage stamps
It is wonderful that last year the US Postal Service issued new stamps featuring four prominent scientists. Pauling and Bardeen were indeed masters in unravelling emergent phenomenon using quantum many-body theory.
Update (2016). I just discovered that in 2005 there was one for Josiah Willard Gibbs and Feynman.
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