Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20369

    Portrait of Raymond Arthur Lyttleton

    Date
    c.1950s
    Sitter
    Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (1911 - 1995, British) , Astronomer
    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): 155mm
    width (print): 110mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Raymond Arthur Lyttleton, turned to the left as viewed, looking out at the camera. Dressed in a grey pin-striped suit, a black tie and a white shirt.

    Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (1911–1995), British astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal in 1965 in ‘recognition of his distinguished contributions to astronomy, particularly for his work on the dynamic stability of the galaxies’.
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