Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21472

    Portrait of Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd

    Date
    c.1969
    Sitter
    Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (1922, British) , Physicist
    Creator
    Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd, inclined to the left as viewed, looking beyond the camera, smiling. Wearing a dark suit jacket and tie, white shirt, and glasses.

    Signed 'Godfrey Argent' in the lower left-hand corner.

    Verso inscription: 'Photograph by GODFREY ARGENT/ 49 QUEENS GATE/ KNIGHTSBRIDGE S.W.7. [...] Rcd 5.6.69.'

    Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (1922-2004), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969. He was awarded the Society's Bakerian Medal and Lecture in 1978, which he delivered on 'Cosmic exploration by X-rays'.
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