Portrait of Howard Walter Florey and Arthur Gordon Sanders
Date
1944
Sitter
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898 - 1968, Australian) , Experimental Pathologist
Arthur Gordon Sanders (1908 - 1980, British) , Physician
Arthur Gordon Sanders (1908 - 1980, British) , Physician
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Dimensions
height (print): 56mm
width (print): 90mm
width (print): 90mm
Subject
Description
Informal snapshot portrait of Howard Florey and A G Sanders, half-length and facing one another, Florey to the left as viewed. Both men are dressed in winter clothing for the flight from Moscow to Baku, Azerbaijan, and are shown laughing.
Captioned below in typescript: ‘H W Florey and A G Sanders ready for their return from Moscow to Tehran. The black seal-skin cap worn by Professor Florey was the one he bought in Norway in 1924, probably in Tromsø when he was Medical Officer to the Oxford University Arctic Expedition to Spitzbergen and North east Land.’
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.
Captioned below in typescript: ‘H W Florey and A G Sanders ready for their return from Moscow to Tehran. The black seal-skin cap worn by Professor Florey was the one he bought in Norway in 1924, probably in Tromsø when he was Medical Officer to the Oxford University Arctic Expedition to Spitzbergen and North east Land.’
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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