Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12346

    Portrait of Arthur Gordon Sanders

    Date
    1944
    Sitter
    Arthur Gordon Sanders (1908 - 1980, British) , Physician
    Creator
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 42mm
    width (print): 36mm
    Subject
    Description
    Informal snapshot portrait of Arthur Gordon Sanders, head and shoulders in half profile looking to the left as viewed. The picture is cropped from a larger print.

    One of four photographs with a typed title above: ‘THE SCIENTIFIC MISSION TO MOSCOW’…THEIR ASSISTANTS. This image is annotated below: ‘M Shimkin. Pasted into the transcribed diary of A G Sanders within the archive collection of Howard Florey. The Anglo-American Medical Mission to the U.S.S.R. spent one month in the country, bringing research results, visiting institutions and making personal contacts with scientists and medical researchers in the Soviet Union.

    Arthur Gordon Sanders (1908-1980), physician and penicillin researcher was one of the team based at the William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford, responsible for developing the antibiotic.

    Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898–1968), experimental pathologist and bacteriologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and served as President from 1960 to 1965.
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