Portrait of Linda Buck
Date
2015
Sitter
Linda Brown Buck (1947) , Biologist
Creator
Debbie Rowe (British) , Photographer
Object type
Subject
Biology
> Physiology (Biology)
Engineering & Technology
> Civil engineering
Physics
> Materials science
Royal Society history & activity
> Events
> Admission Day
> Physiology (Biology)
Engineering & Technology
> Civil engineering
Physics
> Materials science
Royal Society history & activity
> Events
> Admission Day
Description
Half-length portrait of Linda Buck, arms by her sides, looking directly out at the camera. Against a grey background. She wears a a white and black blouse, and a black suit jacket.
Professor Linda Brown Buck (b.1947), American biologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2015. She was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard Axel in 2004, for discovering hundreds of genes code for the odorant sensors located in the olfactory neurons of noses.
Professor Linda Brown Buck (b.1947), American biologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2015. She was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard Axel in 2004, for discovering hundreds of genes code for the odorant sensors located in the olfactory neurons of noses.
Object history
Taken at the Royal Society Admissions Day Ceremony, July 2015.
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