Portrait of Peter Brian Medawar
Date
c.1969
Sitter
Peter Brian Medawar (1915 - 1987) , Biologist
Creator
Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulder portrait of Peter Brian Medawar, inclined to the left as viewed, looking out at the camera. 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: ‘Copyright:/ Photograph/by/ GODFREY ARGENT. 49 QUEENS GATE,/ KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7. […] Recd 6.6.69’
Sir Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949. He received the Society’s Royal Medal, 1959, Copley Medal, 1969, Faraday Prize, 1987, and was joint recipient with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medi-cine) in 1960 for ‘discovery of acquitted immunological tolerance’.
Signed with the photographer’s signature in the bottom left-hand corner of the print. Verso inscription: ‘Copyright:/ Photograph/by/ GODFREY ARGENT. 49 QUEENS GATE,/ KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7. […] Recd 6.6.69’
Sir Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949. He received the Society’s Royal Medal, 1959, Copley Medal, 1969, Faraday Prize, 1987, and was joint recipient with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medi-cine) in 1960 for ‘discovery of acquitted immunological tolerance’.
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