Credit: © Godrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21519

    Portrait of Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd

    Date
    1984
    Sitter
    Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (1922, British) , Astrophysicist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed. He is dressed in dark suit jacket, white shirt and tie, and is wearing spectacles.

    Signed ‘Argent Studio’ on front mount lower left hand corner and further inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3(2). PROF. SIR ROBERT BOYD FRS. SGRS 8329/1. Rec’d -7 NOV 1984. Stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’ And ‘The Royal Society of London.’

    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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