Group portrait of biochemists
Date
ca. 1960s
Sitter
Helen Kemp Porter (1899 - 1987, British) , Plant physiologist
Edmund Langley Hirst (1898 - 1975) , Chemist, Biochemist
Edmund Langley Hirst (1898 - 1975) , Chemist, Biochemist
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 117mm
width (print): 163mm
width (print): 163mm
Subject
Description
Group portrait of biochemists at an event, including Helen Kemp Porter, Edmund Hirst and D J Manners [?].
Inscribed in pen on the back ‘5646-9 Sir Edmund Hirst, D.J. Manners, HKP’.
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Edmund Langley Hirst (1898-1975) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934.
Inscribed in pen on the back ‘5646-9 Sir Edmund Hirst, D.J. Manners, HKP’.
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Edmund Langley Hirst (1898-1975) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1934.
Object history
From a collection of photographs of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and Helen Kemp Porter, presented to the Royal Society for duplication by Jean Adams in June 2016.
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