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Description Portrait, taken in 1938, of noted British theoretical physicist and engineer Thomas Eckersley

Author or
copyright owner Walter Stoneman

Original publication: National Portrait Gallery

Immediate source: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw219355/Thomas-Lydwell-Eckersley?LinkID=mp131962&search=sas&sText=thomas+lydwell+eckersley&role=sit&rNo=0

Date of publication 1938

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Thomas Eckersley

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The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1959

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	14:27, 24 October 2020	No thumbnail	725 × 1,000 (127 KB)	Jgdc47B (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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