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Physics and money. Physicists on banknotes

Abu Nasr al-Farabi (870-950) appears on the 1 tenge banknote, Kazakhstan. He was a scholar in many fields, including philosophy, linguistics, logic and others. He also wrote about the nature of science and argued for the existence of the vacuum.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962) appears on the 500 kroner banknote, Denmark. Bohr was one of the principal architects of quantum theory. He created the first quantum model of the atom and played a leading part in the development of the modern interpretation of quantum theory. 
Kristian Birkeland (1867-1917) appears on the 200 kroner banknote, Norway. Birkeland was a pioneer in the study of the Earth's magnetic field and the northern lights. Pierre and Marie Curie  - a 500 franc banknote, France, 1994. The only banknote in the world to show two physicists at once.
English currency of 1993 - a 20 pound banknote. It shows Michael Faraday.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (10 marks, Germany, 1993).
Benjamin Franklin appears on the 100 US dollar banknote, which many people love.
Nicolaus Copernicus - 1000 zlotys, Poland, 1982.
Leonhard Euler - 10 francs. A Swiss banknote of 1979-1990.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie - 20000 zlotys, Poland.
Viktor Ambartsumian - 100 drams, Armenia, 1998.
Christiaan Huygens - 25 guilders, the Netherlands, 1955.
Albert Einstein - 5 shekels, Israel.
Nikola Tesla - 5 new dinars, FR Yugoslavia, 1994.
Nikola Tesla - 500 dinars, Yugoslavia, 1970.
Blaise Pascal - 500 francs, France, 1990.
Niels Henrik Abel - 500 kroner, Norway, 1982.
Galileo Galilei - 2000 lire, Italy, 1973, 1976.
Guglielmo Marconi - 2000 lire, Italy, 1990.
Isaac Newton - 1 pound, England, 1990.
Ernest Rutherford - 100 dollars, New Zealand.
Erwin Schrödinger - 1000 schillings, Austria, 1983.
Alessandro Volta - 10000 lire, Italy, 1984.