Portrait of John Adams
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                                ca.1963
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                John Bertram Adams (1920 - 1984) , Physicist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 210mm
width (print): 155mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 155mm
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                                Half length portrait of John Bertram Adams inclined to the right as viewed and looking off to the left, his hands are clasped in front of him. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket, striped tie, and white shirt, and is wearing a watch on his right wrist. 
Inscribed with photographer’s signature in white ink ‘Walter Bird’ lower left-hand corner.
Sir John Bertram Adams (1920-1984) British physicist and scientific administrator, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed with photographer’s signature in white ink ‘Walter Bird’ lower left-hand corner.
Sir John Bertram Adams (1920-1984) British physicist and scientific administrator, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963.
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