Portrait of John Douglas Cockcroft
Date
1946
Sitter
John Douglas Cockcroft (1897 - 1967, British) , Knight Physicist, Physicist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 145mm
width (print): 95mm
width (print): 95mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of John Douglas Cockcroft, facing forward, looking just right of the camera, dressed in a white shirt, a dark tie and suit jacket.
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’.
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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