Portrait of physicists Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett PRS and Daulat Singh Kothari

Half-length portrait of Blackett (left as viewed) and Kothari, both seated and with folded hands.

Inscribed verso in red ink: ‘Patrick and Kothari’.

Pasted into a photograph album of visits to India, with images collected by Patrick Blackett, largely 1954-55 and 1971.

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea (1897–1974), British physicist and government and military adviser, was President of the Royal Society 1965-1970.

Daulat Singh Kothari (1906-1993) Indian physicist and government scientific advisor who studied under Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.