Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20410

    Portrait of Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant

    Date
    1937
    Sitter
    Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant (1901 - 2000, Australian) , Physicist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 150mm
    width (print): 105mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, body turned to the left as viewed, looking directly out at the camera. Dressed in a grey suit and tie, and a white shirt.

    Sir Marcus [Mark] Laurence Elwin Oliphant (1901-2000), Knight physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1937. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1943, Bakerian Award, 1955, and Rutherford Award, 1955.
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