Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20418

    Portrait of Rudolph Albert Peters

    Date
    1935
    Sitter
    Rudolph Albert Peters (1889 - 1982) , Biochemist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 140mm
    width (print): 95mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Rudolph Albert Peters, body turned and looking left of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a grey suit and tie, and a white shirt.

    Sir Rudolph Albert Peters (1889-1982), British biochemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1935 and served as its Vice President between 1945-1946 and 1955-1956. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal in 1949 for ‘his distinguished biochemical researches’ and delivered its Croonian Lecture in 1951 on ‘lethal synthesis’.
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