Credit: © Godrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21611

    Portrait of Peter Brian Medawar

    Date
    1984
    Sitter
    Peter Brian Medawar (1915 - 1987) , Biologist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 195mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Peter Brian Medawar in three-quarter profile to the left as viewed, looking off to distance and smiling. He wears a mid-tone suit jacket, white shirt and paisley tie.

    Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3 (6). SIR PETER MEDAWAR F.R.S. 84 SGRS 8365/12 Rec’d 8-ii-85.’

    Stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’ And ‘The Royal Society of London.’

    Sir Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949. He received the Society’s Royal Medal, 1959, Copley Medal, 1969, Faraday Prize, 1987, and was joint recipient with Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1960 for ‘discovery of acquitted immunological tolerance’.

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