Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20537

    Portrait of Alexander Robertus Todd

    Date
    1945
    Sitter
    Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd of Trumpington (1907 - 1997, British) , 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
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Alexander Robertus Todd inclined to the left and looking right of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a black suit, a striped tie and a white shirt.

    Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (1907-1997), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942 and served as its President between 1975-1980. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1949, Bakerian Award, 1954, Royal Medal, 1955 and Copley Medal in 1970. He was also recipient of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1957 for ‘his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes’.
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