Portrait of John Turton Randall
Date
C.1970
Sitter
John Turton Randall (1905 - 1984) , Physicist
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
Seated portrait of John Turton Randall, inclined slightly right, holding his glasses in his right hand. Wearing a polka dot bow tie, white shirt, and black suit.
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 7.10.70.’
Sir John Turton Randall (1905-1984), British physicist and biophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal in the same year for ‘his distinguished researches into fluorescent materials and into the production of high frequency electromagnetic radiation’.
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 7.10.70.’
Sir John Turton Randall (1905-1984), British physicist and biophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal in the same year for ‘his distinguished researches into fluorescent materials and into the production of high frequency electromagnetic radiation’.
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