Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21822

    Portrait of Cyril Hilsum

    Date
    ca.1979
    Sitter
    Cyril Hilsum (1925, British) , Physicist
    Creator - Organisation
    Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Cyril Hilsum square on and looking directly to viewer through dark framed spectacles. He is dressed in a dark suit jacket, striped shirt and silk tie.

    Signed ‘Argent STUDIO’ front mount, lower right-hand side. Inscribed verso ‘HILSUM, Cyril F.R.S. 1979. Box 3. Rec’d 6.7.79.’ Stamped ‘The Royal Society of London. COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO. 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441 937 4008.’ Image reference number ‘79R GRS 8140 24.’

    Cyril Hilsum, British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979 and served on its Council between 1982 and 1984. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 2007 in ‘recognition of his many outstanding contributions and for continuing to use his prodigious talents on behalf of industry, government and academy to this day’. He delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture in 1981 on 'Electronic displays: the link between man and microcircuit' and the Philips Lecture in 1989 entitled ‘Does industrial R&D pay?’
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