Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11558

    Group portrait of three chemists

    Date
    ca.1910-1915
    Sitter
    Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845 - 1925, British) , Chemist, Chemist
    Svante August Arrhenius (1859 - 1927, Swedish) , Chemist
    Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833 - 1915, British) , Chemist
    Creator - Organisation
    Elliott & Fry, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 185mm
    width (print): 236mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half length portraits of (left to right): Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, Svante Arrhenius and Thomas Edward Thorpe, Thorpe shown standing between and behind the two seated scientists.

    Inscribed on the reverse in pencil: ‘Arrhenius Thorpe Roscoe’.

    Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925) British chemist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876.

    Svante August Arrhenius (1859-1927) Swedish chemist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1910.

    Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915) British chemist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863.
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