Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20498

    Portrait of Frederick Sanger

    Date
    c.1954
    Sitter
    Frederick Sanger (1918, British) , Biochemist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 140mm
    width (print): 105mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Frederick Sanger, body inclined to the left as viewed, looking directly out at the camera. Dressed in a black suit and tie, a grey pullover and a white shirt.

    Frederick Sanger (1918-2013), British biochemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1954. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal, 1969, Croonian Award, 1975, Copley Medal, 1977, and was recipient of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1958 ‘for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin’.
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