Portrait of Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Date
1946
Sitter
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897 - 1967, British) , Physical chemist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 150mm
width (print): 100mm
width (print): 100mm
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Description
Half-length portrait of Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, looking left of the camera as viewed, dressed in a white shirt, a pin-striped suit jacket and a patterned tie.
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897-1967), British physical chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929 and served as its President between 1955-1960. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1942, Royal Medal, 1947, Leverhulme Medal, 1960, and was joint recipient with Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1956 for their ‘for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions’.
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897-1967), British physical chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1929 and served as its President between 1955-1960. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1942, Royal Medal, 1947, Leverhulme Medal, 1960, and was joint recipient with Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1956 for their ‘for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions’.
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