Last year, I blogged about physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, and aerospace scientists and inventors honored on US postage stamps. Today I'd like to tackle the even rarer phenomenon of physicists depicted on US currency and coinage.
Not surprisingly the list is very short. Obviously, again Benjamin Franklin heads the list, as depicted on the $100 bill. He is now joined by Dr. Sally Ride on a new American Women Quarter, issued this year.
If we expand our focus, as we did for the postage stamps, to include aerospace inventors, the Wright Brothers are depicted on the North Carolina state quarter (2001), and their Flyer is also depicted on the Ohio state quarter (2002).
Aside from these, I know of no other scientists, mathematicians, or engineers depicted on US currency and coinage, unless you count the polymath Thomas Jefferson. Are there any that I missed?
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