Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21866

    Portrait of Rudolf Ernst Peierls

    Date
    1946
    Sitter
    Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1907 - 1995, British) , Physicist
    Creator
    Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 155mm
    width (print): 95mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Rudolf Ernst Peierls seated to the left and looking out to viewer. His arms are positioned in front of him with his hands crossed. He wears spectacles with transparent round frames and is dressed in a suit jacket, shirt and tie. He has two pens [?] in his breast pocket and wears a watch on his left wrist.

    Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1907-1995), German-born British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1959 in ‘"recognition of his distinguished work on the theoretical foundations of high energy and nuclear physics." and the Copley Medal in 1986"recognition of his fundamental contributions to a very wide range of theoretical physics, and signal advances in proposing the probable existence of nuclear chain reactions in fissile materials."
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