Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21027

    Portrait of Michael John Seaton

    Date
    c.1967
    Sitter
    Michael John Seaton (1923 - 2007, British) , Mathematician
    Creator
    Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Michael John Seaton inclined to and looking right as viewed, dressed in a black suit and tie, and white shirt.

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

    Michael John Seaton (1923-2007), British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and served on its Council between 1974-1976. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal in 1992 for ‘his theoretical research in atomic physics and leadership of the Opacity Project’.
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