Portrait of Harold Spencer Jones
Date
1943
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Half-length portrait of Harold Spencer Jones, turned to the left as viewed, dressed in a grey suit and tie and a white shirt.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones (1890-1960), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal in 1943 for ‘his determination of the solar parallax and other fundamental astronomical constants’.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones (1890-1960), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal in 1943 for ‘his determination of the solar parallax and other fundamental astronomical constants’.
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