Portrait of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Date
c.1970
Sitter
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897 - 1978) , Chemist
Creator
Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Ronald Norrish, 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 right-hand corner of the print. Verso inscription: ‘Copyright:/ Photograph/by/ GODFREY ARGENT. 49 QUEENS GATE,/ KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7. […] Recd 20.2.70.’
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1958, Bakerian Award, 1966, and was joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and George Porter (1920-2002) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy’.
Signed with the photographer’s signature in the bottom right-hand corner of the print. Verso inscription: ‘Copyright:/ Photograph/by/ GODFREY ARGENT. 49 QUEENS GATE,/ KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7. […] Recd 20.2.70.’
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1978), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Davy Medal, 1958, Bakerian Award, 1966, and was joint recipient with Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) and George Porter (1920-2002) of the Nobel Prize (Chemistry) in 1967 for ‘their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy’.
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