Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21620

    Portrait of Michael Mark Woolfson

    Date
    1985
    Sitter
    Michael Mark Woolfson (1927 - 2019, British) , Physicist
    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 Michael Mark Woolfson inclined to the left and looking directly to viewer. He is wearing a dark suit jacket, white shirt and tie.

    Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3. PROFESSOR M. M. WOOLFSON F.R.S. 85 SGRS 8375/2 Rec’d 3/IV/85.’

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

    Michael Mark Woolfson (1927-2019), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1986 for the creation of algorithms including MULTAN and SAYTAN which are used world-wide to solve the majority of reported crystal structures.

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