Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21674

    Portrait of Desmond George King-Hele

    Date
    1986
    Sitter
    Desmond George King-Hele (1927 - 2019, British) , Physicist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 180mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Desmond George King-Hele looking directly to viewer. He has mid-length dark wavy hair, wire rimmed spectacles, and is dressed in a dark checked suit jacket, white shirt and paisley tie.

    Signed by the artist studio on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3, DR. D. G. KING-HELE F.R.S. 1966, SGRS 8441/11.’

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

    Desmond George King-Hele (1927-2019), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966. He was awarded the Bakerian Medal in 1974 with a lecture on A view of Earth and air and the Wilkins Lecture in 1997 on Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution.

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