Portrait of George Ingle Finch
Date
mid 20th century
Sitter
George Ingle Finch (1888 - 1970, Australian) , Chemist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 150 mm
width (print): 105mm
width (print): 105mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of George Ingle Finch, looking left of the camera, dressed in a white shirt, a bow tie and a pin-striped suit.
George Ingle Finch (1888-1970), Australian chemist and mountaineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1938. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1944 ‘for his fundamental contributions to the study of the structure and properties of surfaces, and for his important work on the electrical ignition of gases’.
George Ingle Finch (1888-1970), Australian chemist and mountaineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1938. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1944 ‘for his fundamental contributions to the study of the structure and properties of surfaces, and for his important work on the electrical ignition of gases’.
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