Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21661

    Portrait of George Keith Batchelor

    Date
    1989
    Sitter
    George Keith Batchelor (1920 - 2000, Australian) , Physicist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of George Keith Batchelor inclined to the left and looking out to viewer. He is dressed in a mid-tone suit jacket with check pattern, white shirt and silk tie.

    Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘PROFESSOR G. K. BATCHELOR F.R.S., 89 TGRS 8551./8.’

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

    George Keith Batchelor (1920-2000), Australian physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957 and served on the Council between 1986 and 1987. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1988 "In recognition of his distinguished work on the theory of turbulence and turbulent diffusion, and the theory of microhydrodynamics and colloidal suspensions."

    Associated place
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