Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21031

    Portrait of Richard Vynne Southwell

    Date
    c.1950s
    Sitter
    Richard Vynne Southwell (1888 - 1970) , Mathematician
    Creator
    Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of Richard Vynne Southwell, inclined to the left as viewed, leaning on a tabletop. Dressed in a grey suit, patterned tie and white shirt.

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

    Sir Richard Vynne Southwell (1888-1970), British mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1925 and served on its Council between 1930-1931. He was awarded the Society’s Bakerian award in 1943 and delivered the associated lecture on ‘relaxation methods: a mathematics for engineering sciences’.
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