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US Coins, World Coins, and More => Paper Money => Topic started by: mmarotta on October 26, 2013, 06:36:45 PM

Title: Physicists on Banknotes
Post by: mmarotta on October 26, 2013, 06:36:45 PM

This is a popular topic, at least for physicists...  Here are two links:
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/ (http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/)
and
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money3.htm (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money3.htm)
but more are out there.

Here are some of mine.

Title: Re: Physicists on Banknotes
Post by: mmarotta on November 18, 2013, 05:58:16 PM

From the first ... to a more recent...

Democritus (Demokritos) posited the existence of atoms.
Marie Skłodowska and her husband Pierre Curie used that knowledge to show (among other things) that elements are not immutable.