Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21826

    Portrait of John Theodore Houghton

    Date
    ca.1972
    Sitter
    John Theodore Houghton (1931 - 2020, British) , Atmospheric scientist
    Creator
    Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 155mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of John Theodore Houghton inclined to the left and looking slightly off to the left of the viewer. He is dressed in a tweed suit jacket, white shirt and woollen tie.

    Signed ‘Argent’ front mount, lower left-hand side. Inscribed verso ‘Dr J.T. HOUGHTON FRS. HOUGHTON, John Theodore FRS. 1972. Box 3 (1). Received May 1972. Stamped ‘The Royal Society of London. Photograph by GODFREY ARGENT 49 QUEENS GATE, KNIGHTSBRIDGE. S.W.7. Telephone: 01. 584.0269 & 5431 The Reference No. of this print is GRS 6051/C.’

    Sir John Theodore Houghton (1931-2020), British atmospheric physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972. He gave the Bakerian Lecture in 1991 on 'the predictability of weather and climate' and the Technology Lecture in 1996.

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