Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21644

    Portrait of William Ernest Burcham

    Date
    1985
    Sitter
    William Ernest Burcham (1913 - 2008, British) , Nuclear physicist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 185mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of William Ernest Burcham turned to the left as viewed and looking to camera. He wears full beard and is dressed in a dark suit jacket over white shirt and stripped tie.

    Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3. PROFESSOR W. E. BURCHAM F.R.S. 1957, 85 SGRS 8401/9.’

    Stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’

    William Ernest Burcham (1913-2008), British experimental nuclear physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957, served on its Council from 1977 to 1979, and was awarded the Rutherford Memorial Lecture in 1983.

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