Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.19764

    Portrait of Sydney Chapman

    Date
    early 20th century
    Sitter
    Sydney Chapman (1888 - 1970, British) , Mathematician
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    height (mount): 280mm
    width (mount): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Sydney Chapman, turned slightly to the left as viewed, looking right of the camera, wearing a dark suit and waistcoat over a white shirt.

    Handwritten inscription below the print: ‘Chapman, Sydney
    99302D Chapman'

    Sydney Chapman (1888-1970), British mathematician and geophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919. He was awarded the Royal Medal, 1934, and Copley Medal, 1964, and delivered the Bakerian Lecture in 1931 on ‘Some phenomena of the upper atmosphere’.
    Associated place
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