Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9251
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Portrait of Otto Loewi
Date
1942
Sitter
Otto Loewi (1873 - 1961, German) , Pharmacologist
Creator
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 220mm
width (drawing): 150mm
width (drawing): 150mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of the 69-year old Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Foreign Member of the Royal Society during his later period based at the Medical School of the University of New York, USA.
Inscribed: 'OTTO LOEWI'
Otto Loewi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1954.
Inscribed: 'OTTO LOEWI'
Otto Loewi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1954.
Transcription
P Carvalho – 42
Object history
Owned by Sir George Lindor Brown (1903-1971) physiologist and Secretary of the Royal Society. Brown represented British scientists at the reinterment of Loewi’s ashes at Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A., in 1962. [Sir Henry Dale, ‘Otto Loewi’ in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol.8, 1962, p.83.].
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