Credit: ©The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.13106
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of Ashley Miles
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                                1965
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Arnold Ashley Miles (1904 - 1988, British) , Microbiologist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 183mm
width (print): 132mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 132mm
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                                Full length group portrait including Ashley Miles, at the Exhibition for Economic Achievements (Vystavka dostizheni narodnogo khoziaistva, VDNKh), Moscow. Model of Sputnik satellite can be seen suspended above. Taken on the occasion the Royal Society visited the USSR Academy of Sciences, October 1965.
Arnold Ashley Miles (1904-1988) was a British microbiologist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961 and was on the Council from 1963-1968.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Arnold Ashley Miles (1904-1988) was a British microbiologist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961 and was on the Council from 1963-1968.
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