Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20007

    Portrait of Alfred Gordon Gaydon

    Date
    1953
    Sitter
    Alfred Gordon Gaydon (1911, British) , Spectroscopist, Spectroscopist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 140mm
    width (print): 105mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Alfred Gordon Gaydon, turned to the left as viewed, looking directly out at the camera. Dressed in a white shirt, black suit jacket and striped tie.

    Handwritten verso inscription: 'GAYDON, Alfred Gordon
    F.R.S. 1953
    photograph by W. Stoneman of J. Russell & sons
    63 Baker Street
    London W.
    photograph received on 8 June 1953'

    Alfred Gordon Gaydon (1911-2004), British spectroscopist and combustion scientist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. He was awarded the Society’s Rumford Medal in 1960 ‘in recognition of his distinguished work in the field of molecular spectroscopy and particularly its application to the study of flame phenomena’.
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