Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21690

    Portrait of Michael Smith

    Date
    1986
    Sitter
    Michael Smith (1932 - 2000, Canadian) , Chemist
    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 Michael Smith inclined to the left and looking directly out to viewer. He is dressed in a light-coloured jumper over a dark spotted shirt.

    Signed by the artist studio on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3, PROFESSOR MICHAEL SMITH F.R.S. 1986, 86 SGRS 8447/15.’

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

    Michael Smith (1932-2000), British-born Canadian chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis.

    Associated place
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