Portrait of Archer John Porter Martin
Date
c.1963
Sitter
Archer John Porter Martin (1910 - 2002, British) , Biochemist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
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Description
Seated portrait of Archer John Porter Martin, leaning forward, arms crossed and resting on a tabletop, looking directly out at the camera. Dressed in a black suit and tie, and white shirt.
Archer John Porter Martin (1910 - 2002), British biochemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. He was awarded the Society’s Luverhulme Medal, 1963, and was joint recipient with Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914-1994) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1952 for ‘their invention of partition chromatography’.
Archer John Porter Martin (1910 - 2002), British biochemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. He was awarded the Society’s Luverhulme Medal, 1963, and was joint recipient with Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914-1994) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1952 for ‘their invention of partition chromatography’.
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