Portrait of Martin Evans
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                                February 2008
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Sir Martin John Evans (British) , Biologist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959, British/German) , Photographer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 380mm
width (print): 285mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 285mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Half-length seated portrait showing Martin Evans in front of exhibition display cases holding laboratory equipment. Evans is wearing glasses and holds his left hand under his chin. This image was taken in February 2008, shortly after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in October 2007.
Sir Martin Evans (b.1941) British biologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993, he was awarded the Copley Medal in 2009 Copley Medal for his revolutionary work on embryonic stem cells in mice. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2004 for services to medical science.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                        
                    Sir Martin Evans (b.1941) British biologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993, he was awarded the Copley Medal in 2009 Copley Medal for his revolutionary work on embryonic stem cells in mice. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2004 for services to medical science.