Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20920

    Portrait of Max Newman

    Date
    c.1958
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    Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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    Head and shoulders portrait of Max Newman, inclined to and looking right of the camera. Dressed in a black suit, grey tie and white shirt.

    Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman (1897-1984), British mathematician and codebreaker, was elected a Fellow of the Royal society in 1939. He was awarded the Society’s Sylvester Medal in 1958 for ‘his distinguished contributions to combinatory topology, Boolean algebras and mathematical logic’.
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