Portrait of Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
Date
c.1970
Sitter
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916, British) , Biophysicist
Creator
Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 200mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, inclined slightly right as viewed, looking out at the camera with, arms crossed. Wearing a white lab coat.
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 20.2.70.’
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916-2004), New Zealand-born British biophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959. He was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1962 with Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004) and James Dewey Watson (b.1928) ‘for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material’.
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 20.2.70.’
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916-2004), New Zealand-born British biophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959. He was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1962 with Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004) and James Dewey Watson (b.1928) ‘for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material’.
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