Portrait of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Date
1919
Sitter
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886 - 1975, British) , Physicist
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 140mm
width (print): 94mm
width (print): 94mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, turned to the right as viewed, looking directly out at the camera, dressed in a dark suit jacket, waistcoat and tie over a white shirt.
Handwritten verso inscription: 'Photograph sent by librarian of Roy Soc July 1975. Thought to have been taken on G.I.'s election to the Roy. Soc. In 1919
G. I. Taylor 11368A'
Stamped verso inscription: ‘PHOTOGRAPH BY J. RUSSELL & SONS. 73 BAKER ST., W.'
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886-1975), British physicist and mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919. He was awarded the Royal Medal, 1933, and Copley Medal, 1944, and jointly delivered the Bakerian Lecture with Constance F Elam in 1923 on ‘The Distortion of an Aluminium Crystal during a Tensile Test’.
Handwritten verso inscription: 'Photograph sent by librarian of Roy Soc July 1975. Thought to have been taken on G.I.'s election to the Roy. Soc. In 1919
G. I. Taylor 11368A'
Stamped verso inscription: ‘PHOTOGRAPH BY J. RUSSELL & SONS. 73 BAKER ST., W.'
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886-1975), British physicist and mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919. He was awarded the Royal Medal, 1933, and Copley Medal, 1944, and jointly delivered the Bakerian Lecture with Constance F Elam in 1923 on ‘The Distortion of an Aluminium Crystal during a Tensile Test’.
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