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Einstein 5 Israeli Lirot   Schrodinger 1000 Austrian Schilling

Albert Einstein, 5 Israeli Lirot (1968)

This note is now obsolete.

 

Erwin Schrödinger, 1000 Austrian Schilling (1983)

This note is now obsolete.

Bohr 500 Danish Kroner   Rutherford 100 New Zeland Dollars

Niels Bohr, 500 Danish Kroner (2002)

This note is still legal currency and is still in print.

 

Lord Ernest Rutherford, 100 New Zealand Dollars

This note is still legal currency and is still in print.

Curie 500 French Francs   Marie Curie 20000 Polish Zloty

Marie and Pierre Curie, 500 French Francs (1998)

This note is now obsolete.

 

Marie Curie, 20000 old Polish Zloty (1989)

This note is now obsolete.

Leonhard Euler 10 Swiss Francs   Gauss 10 Deutsch Marks

Leonhard Euler, 10 Swiss Francs (1997)

Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1707 and spent most of his life in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was trained by Johann Bernoulli and was unequivocally the most prolific mathematician of all time. He made critical contributions to virtually every existing field of mathematics and science (and established several new fields).

This note is still legal currency although it has been out of print for some time.

 
Carl Friedrich Gauss, 10 Deutsch Marks (1991)

Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Germany in 1777. Many enthusiasts of mathematical history would place him with Euler and Newton as one of the three best mathematicians of all time. Compared to Euler, Gauss published relatively little during his lifetime; however, virtually everything he did was extremely impactful (his motto was 'pauca sed matura,' which means 'few but ripe').

This note is now obsolete.

Newton 1 British Pound   Faraday 20 British Pounds

Sir Isaac Newton, 1 British Pound

Sir Isaac Newton, born in 1643 in England, is responsible single greatest advancement in the history of mathematical physics. His Principia virtually created physics: science jumped from alchemy to Newtonian mechanics and dynamics. He also made critical contributions to many fields of mathematics (esp. the calculus).

This note is still legal currency although it has been out of print for some time. (For collectors: notice, on the reverse, that this note's serial number begins with the word 'coin').

 

Michael Faraday, 20 British Pounds (1993)

This note is still legal currency although it is out of print.

Oersted 100 Danish Kroner   Huygens 25 Dutch Guilder

Hans Christian Ørsted, 100 Danish Kroner (1970)

This note is now obsolete but can still be traded in for new kroners.


 

Christian Huygens, 25 Dutch Guilder (1955)

This note is now obsolete.