Portrait of Denys Haigh Wilkinson
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                                c.1960s
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Denys Haigh Wilkinson (1922 - 2016, British) , Nuclear physicist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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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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                                Head and shoulders portrait of Denys Haigh Wilkinson, inclined to the left 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.
Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson (1922-2016), British nuclear physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1965, Royal Medal, 1980, Humphry Davy, 1990, and Rutherford Memorial, 1991.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower right-hand corner.
Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson (1922-2016), British nuclear physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1965, Royal Medal, 1980, Humphry Davy, 1990, and Rutherford Memorial, 1991.
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