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Year: 1998

Stamp made in North Korea, 1998, for the 2nd. anniversary of the death of Ri Sung Gi. Ri Sung Gi (1905-1996), was a North Korean chemist. He is best remembered as the inventor of Vinalon. Ri was born in Damyang, Jeollanam-do, in 1905. He graduated from the local pot’ong hakkyo and received his degree in chemistry from Kyoto University in 1931. He developed Vinalon in 1939. In 1946, after Korean independence from Japanese occupation, he participated in the development of Gyeongseong University, but strongly opposed the university’s official conversion to Seoul National University under the American military government. Following the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, he defected to the North. Ri received the Lenin Prize in 1962, and was made head of the North Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute in June 1965. He became chief of the Hamhŭng branch of the Academy of Sciences in 1984.

People 2nd Anniversary Of The Death Of Ri Sung Gi 1998

SKU: SNKP068
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