Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20031

    Portrait of Charles Robert Harington

    Date
    1946
    Sitter
    Charles Robert Harington (1897 - 1972, British) , Chemist
    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): 95mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Charles Robert Harington, looking left of the camera as viewed, dressed in a white shirt, a black suit and a checked tie.

    Sir Charles Robert Harington (1897-1972), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal society in 1931 and served as its Vice President between 1942-1943. He received the Society’s Royal Medal in 1944 for ‘his work in the analysis and synthesis of thyroxine, and in immunological chemistry’ and delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1944 on the same subject.
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