Portrait of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Date
2003
Sitter
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914 - 1998, British) , Physiologist
Creator
Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 160mm
width (print): 160mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, inclined to and looking left of the camera as viewed. Wearing a black suit and tie, and white shirt.
Signed with the photographer’s signature in the bottom left-hand corner of the print. Verso inscription: ‘Photograph/by/ GODFREY ARGENT. 49 QUEENS GATE,/ KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7. […] Recd 19.5.70’
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998), British physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1948 and served as its President between 1970-1975. He was awarded the Socie-ty’s Royal Medal, 1958, Copley Medal, 1965, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) with Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) and Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012) in 1963 for ‘their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell mem-brane.’
Signed with the photographer’s signature in the bottom left-hand corner of the print. Verso inscription: ‘Photograph/by/ GODFREY ARGENT. 49 QUEENS GATE,/ KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7. […] Recd 19.5.70’
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998), British physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1948 and served as its President between 1970-1975. He was awarded the Socie-ty’s Royal Medal, 1958, Copley Medal, 1965, and was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) with Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) and Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012) in 1963 for ‘their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell mem-brane.’
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