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Sunday Stamps: Famous or Accomplished People

.Sunday Stamps is hosted by Violet @ See It On A Postcard
September themes:

  • Week 1 – Places of Learning
  • Week 2 – Famous or Accomplished People
  • Week 3 – Celebrating Historical Event
  • Week 4 –Celebrating Inventions

Everyone is welcome to share their stamps! Simply link to See It On A Postcard by leaving a comment.

Russia – 2025 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Mathematician
Croatia – 2006 Vanja Radauš was a Croatian sculptor, painter, and writer.
USA – 2023 Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Austria – 2020 Austrian Inventions Frequency Hopping Process. “Frequency hopping” was an ingenious way of switching between radio frequencies in order to avoid a signal being jammed. It was developed by Hedy Lamarr with the American composer George Antheil as a “secret communications system”.
Armed with equipment gifted to her by fellow innovator (and sometime lover) Howard Hughes, Hedy Lamarr would spend hours in her trailer on movie sets, testing theories and experimenting with technology. 
One such idea would prove to be a game changer in terms of wireless communication: it would pave the way for the foundation for today’s mobile phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and of course GPS. 

4 comments

  1. Hedy Lamarr was such a hidden genius. The Russian, and Croatian, I will have to learn more about.

    ~violet

    p.s. I’m glad I somehow got things fixed so that you could comment again – but, I’ve no idea why the blogs list doesn’t update, or sometimes, even show up.

    So long as we can all find each other!

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  2. It is curious that some names aren’t even more famous, considering the importance of their work. I like a lot the designs that include blueprints, like the first and the last here; even if I don’t understand them!

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