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
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 150mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
Subject
Description
Seated portrait of George Ingle Finch, holding a book in his lap, looking directly out at the camera, dressed in a white shirt, a black bow tie and a grey 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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