Portrait of Archibald Vivian Hill
Date
1952
Sitter
Archibald Vivian Hill (1886 - 1977) , Physiologist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 140mm
width (print): 95mm
width (print): 95mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of A. V. Hill, looking directly out at the camera, dressed in a white shirt and a black suit and tie.
Inscribed with the sitter's signature in the bottom right corner.
Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977), British physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918, served as its Vice President between 1943-1944, Secretary between 1935-1945 and Foreign Secretary between 1945-1946. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal, 1948, Croonian Award and Lecture, 1926, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1922 for ‘his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle’.
Inscribed with the sitter's signature in the bottom right corner.
Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977), British physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918, served as its Vice President between 1943-1944, Secretary between 1935-1945 and Foreign Secretary between 1945-1946. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal, 1948, Croonian Award and Lecture, 1926, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1922 for ‘his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle’.
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