Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21677

    Portrait of Thomas Nelson Marsham

    Date
    1986
    Sitter
    Thomas Nelson Marsham (1923 - 1989, British) , Nuclear 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 Thomas Nelson Marsham square on and looking directly to viewer. He wears a dark suit jacket, white shirt, and a tie with an ‘RNLI’ lifeboats logo.

    Signed by the artist studio on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘DR. T. N. MARSHAM F.R.S. 1986, 86 SGRS 8454/7.’

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

    Thomas Nelson Marsham (1923-1989), British nuclear physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986. He was awarded the Esso Energy Award in 1978, along with Alexander Gilchrist Frame, John Michael Laithwaite, Alfred David Evans and John Frederick William Bishop for their joint contributions, variously through the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and the Nuclear Power Company, to the development of the successful Prototype Fast Reactor at Dounreay which was commissioned in 1976.

    Associated place
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