Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21692

    Portrait of John Edward Sulston

    Date
    1986
    Sitter
    Sir John Edward Sulston (1942 - 2018, British) , Biologist
    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 John Edward Sulston inclined to the right and looking out to viewer. He has a full beard and is wearing dark framed spectacles. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket, white shirt, and woollen tie.

    Signed by the artist studio on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3, DR. JOHN EDWARD SULSTON F.R.S. 1986, 86 SGRS 8458/11.’

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

    Sir John Edward Sulston (1942-2018), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986. He was awarded the Darwin Medal in 1996 in recognition of his leadership in the study of genome analysis with the potential to have a profound impact on the whole of biology. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002 or his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

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