Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20395

    Portrait of William Hobson Mills

    Date
    1943
    Sitter
    William Hobson Mills (1873 - 1959, British) , Organic chemist
    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): 145mm
    width (print): 95mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of William Hobson Mills, leaning on a table and facing right of the camera as viewed, dressed in a black suit and tie and a white shirt.

    William Hobson Mills (1873-1959), British organic chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal in 1933 for ‘his researches in organic chemistry, and for his work on the synthesis and properties of the cyanine dyes, and more especially for his investigation of novel types of asymmetric molecules’.
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