Re: Put Feynman on a Stamp!

[Jon Bell <jtbell@cs1.presby.edu>]

  <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:48:14 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>
> >
> >
> >     Richard Feynman was considered last year by the Citizens Stamp
> >     Advisory Committee, and was rejected!  Apparently, although enough
> >     people had written in on their own for him to be considered, there
> >     was not enough organized support for him to gain approval.

In order to be honored by a U.S. postage stamp, one must have been dead 
for at least ten years.  The only exceptions are for former Presidents, 
as was the case for Richard Nixon last year.  I would imagine that after 
1998 Feynman would stand a better chance for approval, perhaps as part of 
a series including other prominent American physicists or scientists.

-- 
Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu>                        Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South Carolina USA