Portrait of John Douglas Cockcroft
Date
ca.1960s
Sitter
John Douglas Cockcroft (1897 - 1967, British) , Knight Physicist, Physicist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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Image reference
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Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of John Douglas Cockcroft in three quarter profile to the right as viewed. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket with white shirt and tie and he is wearing dark rimmed spectacles.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature lower right-hand corner.
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967), British physicist and engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1938, Royal Medal, 1954, and was joint recipient with Ernest Walton (1903-1995) of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1951 for ‘their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles’.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature lower right-hand corner.
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897-1967), British physicist and engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1938, Royal Medal, 1954, and was joint recipient with Ernest Walton (1903-1995) of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1951 for ‘their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles’.
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