Portrait of Henry Hallett Dale
Date
ca.1960s
Sitter
Henry Hallett Dale (1875 - 1968, British) , Knight Physician, Physiologist
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
Half-length portrait of Henry Hallett Dale in three-quarter turn to the right and looking out to viewer. He is seated with clasped hands resting on a table. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket with waistcoat, striped shirt and spotted tie and he is wearing spectacles.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature lower left-hand corner.
Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) British physiologist and pharmacologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and served as its President from 1940 to 1945. He was awarded the Royal Medal, 1924, and the Copley Medal, 1937, and was the joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1936 with Otto Loewi (1873-1961) ‘for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses’.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature lower left-hand corner.
Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) British physiologist and pharmacologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and served as its President from 1940 to 1945. He was awarded the Royal Medal, 1924, and the Copley Medal, 1937, and was the joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1936 with Otto Loewi (1873-1961) ‘for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses’.
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