Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20346

    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’.
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