Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20930

    Portrait of Michael Polanyi

    Date
    c.1950s
    Sitter
    Michael Polanyi (1891 - 1976) , Physical chemist
    Creator
    Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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    Half-length portrait of Michael Polanyi in right profile, dressed in a black suit and tie, and white shirt.

    Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower right-hand corner.

    Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), Hungarian physical chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944.
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