Portrait of Francis Leslie Rose
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                                c.1950s
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Francis Leslie Rose (1909 - 1988, British) , Chemist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 155mm
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                                Seated portrait of Francis Leslie Rose, inclined to the left as viewed, looking out at the camera, holding his spectacles and smiling. Dressed in a black suit and tie, and white shirt. 
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower left-hand corner.
Francis Leslie Rose (1909-1988), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957. He was awarded the Society’s Leverhulme Medal in 1975 for ‘his distinguished contributions to the application of chemical science to industry’.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower left-hand corner.
Francis Leslie Rose (1909-1988), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957. He was awarded the Society’s Leverhulme Medal in 1975 for ‘his distinguished contributions to the application of chemical science to industry’.
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