Portrait of John Turton Randall
Date
c.1960s
Sitter
John Turton Randall (1905 - 1984) , Physicist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Seated portrait of John Turton Randall, inclined to the right as viewed, looking out at the camera, holding his spectacles. Dressed in a black suit and bowtie, and white shirt.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower left-hand corner.
Sir John Turton Randall (1905-1984), British physicist and biophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal in the same year for ‘his distinguished researches into fluorescent materials and into the production of high frequency elec-tro-magnetic radiation’.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower left-hand corner.
Sir John Turton Randall (1905-1984), British physicist and biophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal in the same year for ‘his distinguished researches into fluorescent materials and into the production of high frequency elec-tro-magnetic radiation’.
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