Portrait of Patrick Maynard Blackett
Date
ca.1960s
Sitter
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea (1897 - 1974, British) , Physicist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Patrick Maynard Blackett, square on and looking off to the right as viewed. He is dressed in a corduroy [?] jacket, white shirt, and silk tie.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature lower left-hand corner.
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (1897- 1974), British physicist and government and military adviser, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1933, and served as its President between 1965 and 1970. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal, 1940, Copley Medal, 1956, and was awarded the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1948 ‘for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation’.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature lower left-hand corner.
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (1897- 1974), British physicist and government and military adviser, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1933, and served as its President between 1965 and 1970. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal, 1940, Copley Medal, 1956, and was awarded the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1948 ‘for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation’.
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