Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.19897

    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
    Image reference
    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 150mm
    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’.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Oceania
          > Australia
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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