Portrait of George Porter
Date
c.1960
Sitter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920 - 2002, British) , Chemist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of George Porter, inclined to the right as viewed, looking out at the camera. Dressed in a black suit jacket, a striped tie and white shirt.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower left-hand corner.
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960 and served as its President between 1985-1990. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal, 1992, Davy Medal, 1971, Rumford Medal, 1978, Michael Faraday Award, 1991, Bakerian Award, 1977, Humphry Davy and Claude Bernard Award, 1985. He was also joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and Ronald Norrish (1897-1978) of the Noble Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy’.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower left-hand corner.
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960 and served as its President between 1985-1990. He was awarded the Society’s Copley Medal, 1992, Davy Medal, 1971, Rumford Medal, 1978, Michael Faraday Award, 1991, Bakerian Award, 1977, Humphry Davy and Claude Bernard Award, 1985. He was also joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and Ronald Norrish (1897-1978) of the Noble Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy’.
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