Portrait of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Date
2020
Sitter
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Northern Irish) , Astrophysicist
Creator
Stephen Shankland (British) , Portraitist
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Dimensions
height (frame): 1115mm
width (frame): 863mm
depth (frame): 60mm
width (frame): 863mm
depth (frame): 60mm
Subject
Description
Seated portrait of Jocelyn Bell Burnell, turned slightly to the left as viewed, looking directly out at the viewer. She wears a bag over her right shoulder and rests a notebook in her lap. Behind, the base of a 36-inch Grubb-Parsons reflecting telescope inscribed 'GRUBB-PARSONS NEWCASTLE ON TYNE 1928' is visible.
Verso inscription: 'Stephen Shankland 2020 'Jocelyn Bell Burnell''
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. She received the Society's Copley Medal in 2021 and Royal Medal in 2015 for her work on the discovery of pulsars, and its Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture in 2010, which she delivered on the subject of science communication.
Verso inscription: 'Stephen Shankland 2020 'Jocelyn Bell Burnell''
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. She received the Society's Copley Medal in 2021 and Royal Medal in 2015 for her work on the discovery of pulsars, and its Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture in 2010, which she delivered on the subject of science communication.
Object history
Commissioned by the Royal Society in 2019, accessioned in 2020.
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