You´re buying a stamp with a tab promoting the International Year of Crystallography 2014 and honouring Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - the sole recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
Prof. Shechtman received the prize for his discovery of a new form of matter - the Quasi-periodic Crystals...
The flower-like image on the stamp is an electron microscope photo of icosahedral quasicrystal aggregates of an aluminum-magnesium alloy...
The tab of the stamp commemorates Philately Day 2013...
- Condition: MNH (**)
- Issued on: December 3, 2013
- Catalogue: Scott
- number(s): 1993
- Catalogue value:
Unless otherwise specified – all material described as MNH (mint never hinged) is in ´as-issued´, post-fresh condition...