Physicists of the 20th Century on Banknotes

-- by Steven A. Feller, immediate past President of Sigma Pi Sigma; Former Editor of the IBNS Journal

Marie and Pierre Curie banknote

Many nations display famous scientists on their bank notes. This is a brief look at physicists of the 20th century on bank notes. The two sides of the notes are defined as the face and the back. The physicists illustrated include Lord Kelvin, Nikola Tesla, Marie and Pierre Curie, Lord Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Erin Shrödinger, and Guglielmo Marconi. The numbers in the captions for the bank note illustrations refer to the standard Pick notation commonly used among numismatists that study and collect paper money. This notation refers to the note’s listing in one of the three volumes of the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money by Albert Pick. These volumes are issued periodically by Krause Publications of Iola, WI.

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• Summer 2004