A stamp commemorating the achievements of John Bardeen, the famous University of Illinois Engineering professor, will be unveiled this Thursday, March 6. Bardeen won the Nobel prize twice - once for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect, and another time for the theory of superconductivity (
Wikipedia).
The campus will host Urbana Postmaster Kathleen J. Burr, regional U.S. Postal Service officials, university administrators, and family and friends of Bardeen (1908-1991) at the ceremony in room 144 of Loomis Laboratory (1110 W. Green St., Urbana). The event begins at 12:15 p.m., and is free and open to the public.
College of Engineering: Bardeen Stamp Celebrated at Campus Ceremony
2 comments:
This is awesome. Are these stamps going to be available nation wide?
I wonder if somebody will develop a musical stamp next, the same way somebody developed the musical card. The mail-person suicide rate would skyrocket.
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