Crystallography on stamps

[13] Some countries have also issued stamps depicting internationally famous scientists associated with crystallography.

[17] The following Nobel prize-winning crystallographers (or their work) have been depicted on stamps: Charles Glover Barkla, Paul D. Boyer, Lawrence Bragg, William Henry Bragg, Georges Charpak, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Francis Crick, Robert Curl, Clinton Davisson, Peter Debye, Johann Deisenhofer, Louis de Broglie, Jennifer Doudna, Ben Feringa, Andre Geim, Herbert A. Hauptman, Dorothy Hodgkin, Jerome Karle, Martin Karplus, Aaron Klug, Brian Kobilka, Harry Kroto, Robert Lefkowitz, Michael Levitt, Hartmut Michel, Konstantin Novoselov, Ardem Patapoutian, Linus Pauling, Max Perutz, Venki Ramakrishnan.

Wilhelm Röntgen, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Dan Shechtman, Richard Smalley, Thomas A. Steitz, Fraser Stoddart, George Paget Thomson, Max von Laue, Arieh Warshel, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, Ada Yonath.

To promote crystallography the following countries issued stamps to commemorate the IYCr: Austria (personalised), Belgium, India, Israel, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Moldova (personalised), North Korea, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.

[22] Daniel Rabinovich is the current leading writer in the field having published articles on the International Year of Crystallography,[7][8][21] and 35 articles covering chemistry, crystallography and physics philatelic subjects in the journal Chemistry International from 2007 to 2013.