Portrait of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Date
1945
Sitter
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897 - 1978) , Chemist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 145mm
width (print): 95mm
width (print): 95mm
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Description
Half-length portrait of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, body turned to the left as viewed, looking directly out at the camera. Dressed in a black suit, a grey tie and a white shirt.
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1958, Bakerian Award, 1966, and was joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and George Porter (1920-2002) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy’.
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1958, Bakerian Award, 1966, and was joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and George Porter (1920-2002) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy’.
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