Portrait of Alan Rushton Battersby
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                                ca.1960s
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Alan Rushton Battersby (1925 - 2018, British) , Chemist, Organic chemist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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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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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Head and shoulders portrait of Alan Rushton Battersby in three quarter profile to the right as viewed. He wears a suit jacket, white shirt, and silk tie.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature ‘Walter Bird’ lower right-hand corner.
Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (1925-2018) British organic chemist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966, he served on the Council from 1973-1975.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed with the photographer’s signature ‘Walter Bird’ lower right-hand corner.
Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (1925-2018) British organic chemist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966, he served on the Council from 1973-1975.
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