Portrait of Howard Walter Florey
Date
1946
Sitter
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898 - 1968, Australian) , Pathologist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 115mm
width (print): 95mm
width (print): 95mm
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Description
Seated portrait of Howard Walter Florey, turned slightly to the left as viewed, looking right of the camera. Dressed in a white shirt, a black tie and a black suit jacket.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898-1968), Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, served as Vice President between 1951-1953 and President between 1960-1965. He was joint recipient with Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) and Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1945 for ‘for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases’.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898-1968), Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, served as Vice President between 1951-1953 and President between 1960-1965. He was joint recipient with Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) and Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1945 for ‘for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases’.
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