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1999 New Zealand $1.10
Leading the Way - The Millennium Series - Part Five.
The group of six stamps on New Zealanders "Leading the Way" was released 17 Nov 1999
as part of the lead-up to the Millennium celebrations.
40c - Womans suffrage - 1893
80c - Powered Flight - 1903 (Richard Pearse)
$1.10 - Splitting the Atom - 1917 (Ernest Rutherford)
$1.20 - Jet Boat - 1953 (Bill Hamilton)
$1.50 - Mt Everest - 1953 (Ed Hillary)
$1.80 - Nuclear Free - 1987
As I was helping an unsuccessful entrant in the design competition, I didn't have any involvement with this
stamp apart from pleading with the post office to use, regardless of who won, an image of Rutherford as a young man.
Had I been involved I would have suggested using 1917, the date he first did his work rather than
1919 the year he finally published his work. It is interesting to note the illustration concerns
the nuclear model of the atom, not the splitting of the atom.
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