Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21817

    Portrait of Stephen William Hawking

    Date
    1976
    Sitter
    Stephen William Hawking (1942 - 2018, British) , Theoretical physicist
    Creator
    Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Stephen Hawking smiling and looking directly to viewer. He is seated in a wheelchair with his hands crossed in his lap. He is wearing wire rimmed spectacles and is dressed in a dark suit jacket, white shirt and tie.

    Signed ‘Argent’ front mount, lower left-hand corner. Inscribed verso ‘HAWKING, Stephen William FRS 1974. Box 3. Rec’d 28.2.77. Stamped ‘The Royal Society of London. Copyright: GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 33 QUEEN’S GATE GARDENS LONDON, SW7 5RR TEL 01-584 0269. 76R.GRS. 7922-7’

    Stephen William Hawking (1942-2018), British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, was was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He received the Society's Hughes Medal in 1976 for 'his distinguished contributions to the application of general relativity to astrophysics, especially to the behaviour of highly condensed matter', and its Copley Medal in 2006 for 'his outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and theoretical cosmology'.
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