Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20455

    Portrait of Martin Ryle

    Date
    c.1953
    Sitter
    Martin Ryle (1918 - 1984, British) , Radio astronomer
    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 Martin Ryle, holding a book, inclined to the left and looking left of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a grey pin-striped suit, a black tie and a white shirt.

    Sir Martin Ryle (1918-1984), British radio astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1954, Bakerian Award, 1958, Royal Medal, 1973, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1974 with Antony Hewish (1924-2021) ‘for for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics’.
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