Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20406

    Portrait of Joseph Needham

    Date
    1949
    Sitter
    Joseph Needham (1900 - 1995) , Biochemist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 150mm
    width (print): 110mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Joseph Needham turned to the left and looking left of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a black pinstriped suit, a patterned tie and a white shirt.

    Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941. He was awarded the Society’s Wilkins Award in 1958 and delivered the Lecture on ‘The missing link In horological history: a Chinese contribution’.
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