Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21818

    Portrait of Volker Heine

    Date
    ca.1975
    Sitter
    Volker Heine (1930, British) , 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
    Head and shoulders portrait of Volker Heine, inclined to the right and looking directly to viewer through dark rimmed spectacles. He has a goatee-style beard and is dressed in a dark suit jacket with check weave, white shirt and silk tie.

    Signed ‘Argent’ front mount, lower left-hand corner. Inscribed verso ‘HEINE, Volker FRS 1974. Box 3. Received 13.2.75.’ Stamped ‘The Royal Society of London. Copyright: GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 33 QUEEN’S GATE GARDENS LONDON, SW7 5RR TEL 01-584 0269. GRS 6455/20.’

    Volker Heine, German-born New Zealand and British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1993 in ‘recognition of his contributions to solid state theory, in particular the bonding and structure of solids’.
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